i!) 



'ill 



♦ 
I 

I 

\\ 

i I 


i 



■-^o" 



■v^O* 




"o> 




v^O* 



♦ 4 

'' "V; '-.,3V ^ 






• .*^% -mf- /\ -w- .*''*< 

























qV - o , ."'o 



^*v 


















\ 
,.^' 



^°^ 



> 



.^.;, 






W^s/ \/W'/ %-'#^v^' ''v/-i<^r^;o-^ ^^'M'/ 






,r^- 



9^0 






v^^ 



"^^0 



^0^ 




f: i°-^ 




.0 0°"°- O -Jy'^ ,-"'•« "^.i. rO'^ ''■■' 







0^ ,^o« = , -^o 



^. 





— ^^ • o o > \ ' 



I 



i 



i' 



WINBORNE 
FAMILY 



BY 

JUDGE BENJ. BRODIE WINBORNE, 

MURFKEESBORO. N. C. 



*r 



'A heart that has truly loved never forgets. 
But as truly loves on to the close." — Moore. 




PIIKSSES OF EinVAKDS * BRlll'C.HTON, 
ltAI.EIi;II. N. I. 






iH%'^ 



'b^ 



DEDICATION. 
This short sketch of my ancestors I dedicate to 

MY TWO NEPHEWS, RoGER M. WlXIiORNE AND RoBERT 

Warren Winborne, sons of my^ brother, Robert W., 
and to my two sons, stanley win borne and benja- 
MIN Brodie Winborne, Jr. .May they ever be 
I'Rori) of their ancestors and in:ir-ECT credit on 
the Winborne name. 

Ben. I. Brodie Winborne. 
Ai-itiL, 11105. 



I 



CONTENTS. 



Town of Murfreesboro, X. C 11 

Hertforil County, N. C 14 

My Afiolofjy 17 

Henry Winborne 20 

Thomas Winborne 2tj 

Sarah Agatha Winborne 30 

Klisha Winl>orne 34 

Martha Warren 38 

Micajah Tlionias Winborne 43 

-Maj. Samuel llarden Winborne 46 

A l'"e\v Stray Thoujihts of My Father, Maj. S. D. Winborne 52 

Caroline .Vnn Winborne 52 

Dr. Robert Henry Winborne Gl 

Annie Felicia Parker 67 

Itichard Winborne 71 

Kobert Warren 74 

Mrs. Mary Hare Winborne 78 

Clam Ann Winborne 85 

Mary Klizabeth Winborne 85 

Benjamin Uroilie Winborne .S6 

.Mrs. Marjjaret Klla Savage Sit 

Kobert Warren Winborne 91 

Mrs. .Martlia .\nnie IJurbaae 95 

Samuel I'retlow Winborne % 

Uriah Vaughan 98 

Sarah A. Vaughan, nee .Tenkins 103 

Bryan Hare 105 

Miss .4nn Scott 107 

The Shepherds 108 

.1. W. Perry Ill 

Buck horn Academy 113 

Buckhorn Baptist Church 116 

Bertie County, N. C 118 



Contents. 



PAGE. 

Hertford County, N. C 121 

Northampton County, N. C 125 

Nash County, N. C 129 

Edgecombe County, N. C 132 

Wake County, N. C 133 

(iuilford County, N. C 134 

Randolph County, N. C 135 

Wilson Coiuity, N. C 135 

X'rifjinia 13t) 

Thomas Wilborne 138 

England 1-10 

Conclusion 1-11 




Hon. W. N. I[. smith. 

I.ATK rillKF Jl STIlE OF NoKTH CAKOLINA. 

The sreftt grainlsun of Staikey Sharp 

iitu\ wife Sarah sharp nee Winborne. 

( Sec pttKP 1-1. ) 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

FaciuK ('Hue, 

B. B. Winlrorne, Jr.. Stanley Winbonip (> 

Hon. W. N. H. Smith 8 

Hon. B. B. Winborne (January. 1905) !ii 

John Spotswood Anderson 28 

Albert Mit-hael Gurley 30 

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Gurley 32 

Elislia Winborne . . 34 

Miiajah T. Winborn.- 42 

Major S. D. Winborne 46 

Mrs. \V. F. Watson .58 

Dr. K. H. Winborne (iO 

Richard Winborne 62 

William H. Winborne 64 

John Wallace Winborne 66 

Richard Winborne 70 

Robert Warren 74 

Mrs. Mary H. Winborne 78 

J. P. Massenburg 82 

Miss Mary Eliz. Winborne 84 

Hon. B. B. Winborne. ( January. 1904 ) 86 

Stanley Winborne 86 

B. B. Winborne. Jr 86 

Mrs. Ella M. Savage 88 

R. W. Winborne 90 

Roger M. Winborne 92 

R. W. Winlwrne. Jr 92 

Mrs. Annie M. Burbage 94 

S. P. Winborne 96 

Mrs. S. P. Winborne 96 

Col. Uriah Vaughan 98 

Mrs. Nellie V. Winborne 102 

Mrs. Rosa T. Winborne 104 

J. W. Perry 110 

Mrs. Julia Moore Parrish 116 

Hayden L. G urley US 

Mrs. Lucy Ann Gurley 12n 




il..N. I;, n. u 1m;.>1;nk. 

>irRFI:KHsll(il;o. X. e. 

Jaiiiinry. 1905. 



TOWN OF MURFREESBORO, N. C. 

This beautiful old town is located in Hertford C'ouuty, 
-N'. C, on the soutli side of Meherrin Kiver, at the head 
of navigation for sea-going vessels, on a high bluff, 
about SO feet ab<jve the water of the river. It was first 
incorporated by an act of the Legislature of North 
Carolina, ratified January (!. ITs?. Prior to that date, 
it was known as Murfree's Landing. William Jlurfree 
donated the laud for the town. .Murfreesboro has al- 
ways i>een noted for the culture and retiueuient of its 
citizens, and its si)iendid schools. It lias been the home 
of many distinguished i)eoi)le in the history of North 
Carolina, among theui were (Jen. Laurence Ixiker, Col. 
Hanly Alurfree and Gen. Dickinsou of Kevolutionary 
fame, Colonels J. X. llarreil and .1. .\L Wynn, Capt. 
L. C. Lawrence. .Maj. .Ic^sc- .1. Vcates, and others, of the 
Civil War fame, John 11. WiiechT, tlie great historian 
of the State, tiie late Chief .liisticc \V. X. II. Smith, the 
father of the late Chief .Insiicc Manning, of Louisiana, 
and many other.s. The town of Murfreeslioro, Tennes- 
see, was caused to lie incorj)orated by Cid. Hardy Mur- 
free, of the same family, and is named for the same 
gentleman. 

Winton. the county seat of Hertford, was incorpor- 
ated in 1T6S. nineteen years earlier. That town is lo- 
cated on the majestic Chowan River, and is now a 
thrifty and prosperous town. 



12 The Winborne Family. 

The Meherrin l>;i]>tist C'luirch, about one-half mile 
out of town, is, I think, the seeonil nhlest Baptist church 
in tliis State, Shihih Church, in Pas(inotank, probably 
about six years ohlev. One Joseph Parker, ordained 
liy tlie Shiloh Clnirch, established where the town of 
Mnrfreesboro noAV stands, about the year 1735, the 
c-hnrch known as ^leherrin Church. The name Meher- 
rin. like Xattaway, ( 'howan, Urahaw, was the name of a 
tribe of Indians. The ]\leherrins had their camping 
griinnds in ilamiey's Neck. All along the line of Me- 
licrrin River, on each side, was their hunting grounds. 
Tlie Indians always selected the most desirable spots of 
laud for their camping villages, and the white man soon 
learning this, in their search for the "happy valley," 
and the attractive liigli lands, made battle against the 
Red Man, until they succeeded as the occupants of the 
llfil Man's home and sporting parks. But returning, 
Meherrin Church, after the location of the town, was 
moved about one-half mile outside of the town limits 
and located on the land now owned by James jST. Law- 
rence, in tlie old oak grove, just beyond the jjresent 
drive to the Lawrence Mineral Spring, so much resorted 
til bv the health-seelviug people of the town. Later Mr. 
T. Capehart traded the present site of the church for 
the old chureli yard, and gave the members a nice little 
money donation, to aid in the rejjairiug or rebuilding 
of the new chui'ch edifice. From the name of the 
founder, it was frequently s]ioken of as Parker's 
Church. 

In Feliruary, l.'^25, ilarquis de La Fayette, a great 
(leueral in Wasliington's army during the Revolution, 



TOWK OF MURFREESBORO, N. C. 13 

visited ilurfreesboro and stopped at the Indian Queen 
JJotcl, then owned by Henry Kanisay, a very wealthy 
citizen of the town, lie was given a grand reception. 
William liea, Dr. Eoriaud, James Morgan, J. G. Kca, 
Dr. O'Dwyer, Colonel Brici<lc, Lewis M. Cowper, and 
Jolm \V. Southall were on the; reception committee. (2 
^loore's His., 4). During this same year, June utli, 
Kev. Daniel Southal jjreached the funeral sermon of 
General Thomas Wyuns, uncle of our Gol. James M. 
Wyiius. General Wyniis represented this district in the 
Congress of the Cniteil States for a number of years. 
He married iliss ^lanney, of the celebrated family of 
Manney's Xeck, and they lived at Barfields, just below 
Winton, on the Chowan River. Henry ilanney, Mrs. 
Wynns' brother, was then the owner of the old ilanney's 
homestead. (2 Moore's His., 5). During the late Civil 
War, the Union sohlicrs invaded the town several times 
and destroyed much property and carried away many of 
the valuable family jewels and heirlooms, which they 
took from the homes of the citizens. 




14 The Winborne Family. 



HERTFORD COUNTY, 

NORTH CAROLINA. 

This county was foriucd in tlie year IT."!!,!, fruni 
C'liDwan, Bertie, and Xorthamjjton counties. It was 
named for the ^Janpiis of Hertford, an English noble- 
nuin, a friend of liherty. He was a brother of Lord 
Conway, who in ITHd introdiu-eil a bill in the House of 
Lords to repeal the Stamp Act, which act aroused the 
American Colonies and impelled them to throw off the 
yoke of English tyranny. He was Embassador to Paris 
from England during the reign of George III, and after 
that he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. It was to the 
^Marchioness of Hertford that Thompson dedicated his 
great poem, "The Seasons." The old county of Hert- 
ford is dear to the Winborne family. 

The boundaries of Hertford (^)mlty when established 
were as follows : 

"Beainninff in Bertie Countv at the iirst high land on 
the northwest side of Mare Branch, on Chowan River 
Pocosin, running thence by a direct line to Thomas Out- 
law's plantation, near Stoney Creek, thence a direct line 
to Xorthampton County line at the plantation whereon 
James Rutland formerly lived, then along ^Northampton 
line to the head of Beaver Ham Swamp, thence by a 



HkKTI'OKIi COINTV. 15 

direct line to tin- ciistfrniotit jiart of Iverby's Creek, 
llieiict' (luwn rlic creek to Melierrin Kiver, tlien up the 
Mc'lien-iu Kiver to the N'irjiiiiia line, tliericc easterly 
aloiiji' the State line to wIumv tlic Xottaway and Black 
Water liivers i-i.alesce and t'nrni the Chowan River, 
thence down the Cliowan Kiver to tiie month of Ben- 
net's Creek, thence across th(! river to the month of said 
Mare liranch. and \\]t the branch to the beginning." 

The General A-seiiiliJy, liy an Act ratified in Novem- 
ber, ITott, incorporated the above territory as Hertford 
County, in the parish of St. l^arnabas. 
■ Moore's History does not give the complete boiindarv. 

Ahoskie was formerly known by the name of .Vhotsky 
Ridge (A-hot-sky). The town of Ahoskie is now a 
thrifty, bnsy little town on the .\tlantic Coast Line Kail- 
road, nine miles south of Winton, and was incorporated 
by the General Assend)ly January 24, 1S03. 

TIarrellsville is a beatitiful little town, in the centre 
of a prosperous farming section, in the east end of the 
comity, and was incor])orated in the year 1S83. 

Fnion in the centre of the cotinty. and Majileton be- 
tween Mnrfreesboi-o and Winton, are the other incor- 
porated towns in the county. The former was incor- 
l)orated in 1889, and the latter in 1901. 

Hertford County is the mother of a high class of citi- 
zenshi]), and of beautiful and intelligent women. T love 
the name of Hertford. Since my return from school, 
in 1875, 1 have identified myself with all of lier institu- 
tions and enter])rises. I liave permitted nothing to 
come between me and tiie welfare of mv countv. Her 



16 



The Winborne Family. 



jiL'oplc were kiml and a])]>r('ciative of niv father, and 
have heen kind to nio and my hvothers. May her sons 
ever be trne to her, and defend her fair fame, and the 
honor of her noble \\-omen. 




-My Aroi.oGT. 



MY APOLOGY. 

J* jt 

I hare always felt pnnid of my parents, and have 
heeii anxious to know of their ancestry. .\11 are dead. 
We are separated hy the great chasm. My investiga- 
tions iiave increased my admiration for them, if that 
were possilile. I have fonnd an honorahle ancestry. 
No shame attaclied \n it on either side. I pray that the 
living may never i)lot it. I met witli trotibles, in my 
investigations, in olitaining many of the facts, but snc- 
eess crowned my efforts. 1 foimd among my father's 
old ]iapers a great nund)er of old letters, family records, 
co])ies of Conrt records, statements of facts in the cor- 
respondence of the Winliorne children when thc^y were 
yonng, that were a great revelation to me. Their letters 
to each other were model ]troductions, fnll of admira- 
tion for their family ami for each other, fnll of facts 
and interesting news ahmit themselves and others. 
Tliey had no secrets that they withheld from one 
another. Kach letter was an ojjen book of his life and 
doings. They e.xcite great admiration. 

My grandma Martha and my father and nncles 
always told me that their oldest Winborue ancestors in 
this country came from Scotland. Their fondness for 
stock and stockraising, their love for the chase, the meat 
of the venison, their manner of wearing their beard witii 
3 



18 The Winborne Family. 

clean shaven npper'lij), a style so notable with the Scot- 
isli gentry, their great admiration for the beautiful and 
fair complexion, and simple manners and dress of the 
"(Quaker girl," who so much resembles the Scottish 
uuiid, and other traits, indicate the nativity of their an- 
cestors. Wimborne is a familiar name in England to- 
day. In Dorset County, England, there is a city of 
considerable importance by the name of Wimborne 
Minster. There is a Lord Wimborne of great promi- 
nence in England to-day. In reading about him I no- 
tice he is Scotch. Whether the names were originally 
the same, I do not know or care. 

I am, also, indebted to my frien<ls who aideil me 
luuch in getting missing facts, ily brother Ivobert con- 
tributed to iiiy aiil. The records of Bertie, Xorthamp- 
ton and other counties revealed much to me. The rec- 
ords of Hertford (\iunty, however, were burned August 
22, 1830, and again, the court-house and records, except 
the old County Court records since ISJJU, were burned 
by tlie Union soldiers May 20, 1S62. The records of 
Xansemond County, Va., were also destroyed by the 
Union soldiers during the late Civil War between the 
States. The ili/struction of these records were a great 
impediment in vei-ifying many facts and in securing 
others. I am glad 1 made this effort to build a small 
monument to the memory of my departed ancestors. 
Not one of them e\'er died insolvent. They paid their 
debts. They were not rich, nor p()or. Each one left 
something to their children to enable them to begin the 
battle of life. They loved their homes and their fami- 



,\1y AroUKiY. 



19 



lies. Tliev ('ducated their cliildi-cii. I'Ik'v were kind 
m'i<>lil)()rs and patriotic citizens. 1 iiiii i;lad to r(»cor(l it. 

1 am in my o'2d year and the oldest livini>- member 
lit' tile family. Shonld auy of my ivin or friends derive 
any jdeasnre, or my boys receive auy inspiratiim tn 
niililc ih>eds. fi-oin the pcrnsal of this work of mine, I 
shall be ami)ly compensated fnr my laboi-s. 

Slimmer of lilOo. li. 15. W. 




20 The Winbokne Family. 



HENRY WINBORNE. 

-Xiitliiuii' (leliglits the liimiiin iiiiiul ukivc tluui the 
study of geneahDgy. JS^otliing ali'ords one so much pride 
and genuine pleasure than to know that you have an 
lionorable ancestry. To pass over the lu-idge of time, 
tliat ccmuects the present with \\\v ])ast, and to see and 
behold the conditions, the possessions, the habits, the la- 
bors, and look into the faces and talk with those, who 
lived centuries before, is the acme of uicutal happiness, 
and the earthly joy of the soul. Moving back nearly 
one hundred and sixty-three years, seventeen years be- 
fore the formation of Hertford County, and thirty-four 
years before the Declaration of American Independence, 
when ]Vorth Carolina, Virginia, and other great States 
(if the American Union, were colonies, owing fealty to 
the I?ritish Government, we see Bryan Hare, and Henry 
Winborne, in the fall of the year 1742, driving into Ber- 
tie County, North Carolina, from "Nansemond County, 
Virginia, seeking the purchase of lauds and homes in 
this section, of the land of liVicrty and freedom of 
conscience. 

On the Sth day of December, 1742, Daniel Hough, 
jdaurer, of Bertie County, in tlie Brovince of North 
(^arolina, conveyed to Henry Winliorne and Bryan 
Hare, ])lanters, of Nanseniond County, Virginia, in con- 
sideration of seventy-seven pounds and ten shillings, 



Henry Wixboenk. 21 

ciiiTfut money of Vir<>iiii;i. four Iniiidrcd acres of laud 
in Bertie County, lyinj;' on the soutli side of .Melicrriu 
C'roeic (now Poteeasi Creek). Tliis land is located a 
little northeast of ihe town of I'nion in Hertford 
County, and is endnaced in the boundaries of Hertford 
County as formed in 17.")!*. 

On January ■2'>, 17.")4. Ueuj. Cotton conveyed to 
Henry Winhorne, of IJerfie County, 250 acres of land, 
adjoining the laud of .lames Jones, Peter West and 
others. This land is now iu Winton To\vnslii]i, in Hert- 
ford County. 

On the l:'.tli day of Deceniher, IT.J.I, said Henry re- 
ceived a patent for TOO acres of land in Bertie County, 
the location of which is now in the central part of Hert- 
ford County. 

On Ihe 7th day of .March. 17'i4. .Mope? Stallens, of 
Bertie County, conveyed lo Henry Wiidmrne, of Hert- 
ford County, 224 acres id' laii<l, lyinjr. I think, iu the 
Pitch Lauding- section. 

On the 10th day of January. 17nO, his son, William 
Winborue, conveyed tiie above 224 acres to Aaron As- 
kew, so he must lia\c con\eyed that tract to William. 

On tile 14th <hiy of April, 17.''!». Henry Winhorne 
convened to Jo(d liinl 2.'>0 acrt's of land. His wife did 
not join in this warranty ileed, so I couclude that his 
wife, Sarah, must have died prion to that date, as the 
common law riglil of .lower prevaileil in .\ortli Carolina 
until 17S4. 

Win.yfcnd r. \V inx/cail . 2 .\. C., 24;>. Tlie common 
law right of dower was tlial the wife, ■*who survived her 
husband, was entitled to one-thinl interest in valn(> dur- 



22 The Winbobne Family. 

illy liei- life, ill all lauds of which lier hushaiid was 
seized during eoverture. Hence, in selling land, it was 
necessary for the wife to join in the deed to bar her 
right of (lower in the hind. This law was changed iu 
I'iX-i, eh. lii', sec. N. From that date the wife was 
only entitled to dower iu the lauds of which her hus- 
band DiEi) seized. The comuiou law right of dower, 
however, was restored iu North Carolina on March 2, 
1^07, Acts 186-T, eh. 54, and which is the hrw to-day. 

Henry Wiuborne was a man of affairs and was a 
large laiulowuer. He was energetic, thrifty, of good 
judgment, and an honorable iiiau. It seems that he 
married Miss Sarah Hare, a Quaker lady, of Nanse- 
inoud County, Virginia, the sister of his companion, 
Bryan Hare. On October 15, IT 54, Henry Wiuborne 
and his wife, Sarah, conveyed to John Brickie, of Bertie 
County, 200 acres of laud, liut since November, 1759, 
has been iu llcrtfoi-d (•ouut.y, lying near the town of 
Union. 

. So far as we can learu from iiur investigation, Henry 
Wiuborne and his wife, Sarali, had three children, viz., 
Sarah, William, and Thomas. They were bom prior to 
April, 175!>. His wife did not survive the birth of her 
son, Thomas, very long. Henry never re-married, as we 
can learu. Later on, wlien the British Govermnent, by 
its tyrannical laws, so aroused the re.sentnient of the 
Auiericau colonists, as to cause them to declare their 
indcpeudcuce of the British Crown, iiud to resort to 
arms to defeiul their liberties and indeiiendence, Henry 
Wiuborne, of Hertford County, on the 24th day of May, 
1777, enlisted in the Continental Army of America, for 



Henry Winborne. 23 

three years, as a {)rivate in Capt. Josepli Walker's Com- 
pany, of Hertford County, and of tlic Seventh llegiment 
of North Cai'olina's Continental Troops. See State 
IJcc. of iS'. C, Vol. 16, page llSa. His record must 
have been an honorable one, for 1 tind in the State rec- 
ords in the office of Secretary of State, at Raleigh, that 
on the 7th day of April, lT>i(i, tiie State of North Caro- 
lina granted to him, ■"Henrv Winhiu'iic, a [)rivate in the 
Continental line," ;JMi aercs of land in this State. 

In examining the «dd records of deeds and other 
papers, I tind that his name, wlien written by others, is 
spelt in various ways, viz., Winboiaie, Winburn, Win- 
l)orn, and Winlnitiru. lint in every case where he 
signed his name, he wroit- it llciinj Winborne. In 
Capt. Walker's conijiany, .lohn Wiidxirnc, of Hertford 
County, was Lieutenant. He died during the war, so 
the State records show. I have been unable to learn 
what was the blood connection between John and 
Henry. I regTct tliat w(> have no records to inform us. 

Bryan Hare (or as it is often spelt Bryant Hare) was, 
also, an active and energetic person, and was evidently 
a Quaker and a nuin of ])rominence. On .March. 30, 
IT");], Bryan Hare, of Bertie County, conveyed to David 
Sinclaire 150 acres of land, then in Bertie (but in Hert- 
ford County since ITaO), lying between Brook's Creek 
and the i)ublic road to A\'iccacon Ferry. On July 22, 
17oS, Peter West, of Bertie County, conveyed to Bryan 
Hare 100 acres of land in said county on Flat Swamp. 
This is, also, in the boundary of Hertford County. The 
records of IIertfi:)rd County were destroyed in August, 
1830, and again in 1862, so we are cut oif from much 



24 The Winborxe Family. 

v;iln;il)l(' and interesting infiirHuiti"n (if tliese prominent 
people iif Ilerttord County. On January 30, 1758, 
15rvan Hare and wife, Sarali 11 are, of Society Parish, 
in F>ertie County, conveyed to .lohn Brickie 45 acres of 
laud adjoining the lands purchased by John Brickie 
from Henry Wiuborne, and tlie other lands of Bryan 
Hare, known as the Iveuhi'u Powell land, and i)urchased 
by Bryan Hare from l>eiij. ^Vynus, Exr. of Tlios. Lee. 

Bryan Hare married Miss Sarah Shepherd, sister of 
Solomon Shepherd, of Nanseniond County, Virginia. I 
can not learn anything, from the records, of Bryan 
Hare, in Xorth Carolina, after 1758. The destruction 
of the records of Hert ford ( 'ouuty by fire in 1830 makes 
it impossible for us to learn what estate Henry Win- 
borne left, and who settled it. But we know lie left a 
very considerable estate, as his land remained in the 
])ossession of his sons, and a ]iortion was owned by his 
grandson, Elisha, until sold iu 1829, after the death of 
Elisha. His family having moved to another part of 
the county. 

Henry ^Yinborne had one brother, and possibly sev- 
eral. Thomas Wiuborne, his brother, moved from 
Xansemond County, Va., to Xorthampton County, N. 
C., about the middle of the isth century. The records 
of the latter county show that on July 3, 1758, William 
Saunders conveyed to Thomas Winborne, of that cotinty, 
100 acres of land on (Quarter Swamp, it being a part of 
the Joseph Lane patent. Henry and Thomas inva- 
riably spelt their names Winhorne. That was not the 
ease with William Winborne, of Northampton County, 
X. C, who also came from Nansemond County, Va., and 



IIemry Winbokm:. 25 

who speaks of his two brotlicrs, John and Pliilip. They 
iiiav have Iwen hrothers of Ilciirv and Thomas, l)ut I 
can not find anvthinc; to justify that conchision. They 
were evidently kin. See tlie eliapters, "Xorthanipton 
Co.," and "'Vii-giuia." 



NoTK. — Since writing this sl<etoh. I have learned that Henry 
Winborne. the subject of this sketch, and William Murfree. 
represented Hertford County in the General Assembly of 1762 
and 1763, they being the first representatives from the county. 
(Col. Rec, Vol. 6, pages 810 and 916.) The names printed on 
page 801 are incorrect. 




■2(\ TiiK WiNBOPvNE Family. 



THOMAS WINBORNE. 

The son of Henry Winlmi'iic and his wife, Sarah, of 
whom we have written, was horn between 1754: and 
175!) (in the fiirni owned by the hitc Joseph Newsoni, in 
Hertford Connty, whieli was ihc Wiidiorne homestead. 
The family records, fonnd anionf>- my father's papers, 
after iiis death, informs lis that Tliomas Winborne mar- 
ried Miss Sarali Copeland, a gentle and pleasing 
(Quakeress. Her parents lieliinged to the followers of 
George Fox and William Penn, and were noted in their 
day for their rigid honesty, their plain and simple man- 
ners, their neat and nnostentatioiis dress, and their 
beautiful an<l exeuqdary characters and lives. Aliss 
('o]K>land possessed in a marked degree the attractions 
of I hi' pure, liglil-liaircil Scotlisii lassie, and of the 
cliarming (^)naker gii'l. X" rclined gentlemau can re- 
sist the charms and fascinations of the beantifid Qunlrr 
(jirl . unless he is devoid of all love for the beautiful and 
sublime. The ])oet must have had one of them in his 
mind when he wrote: 

" A thing of beauty is a joy forever." 

The children and grandchildren of Thomas and 
Sarah i-eflected in their lives, to a great extent, the 
s])lendi(l and beautiful lives and characters of their 
parents. 



Tiiojr.vs \Vixi!I)i;ni:. 27 

Tluinuis W'iulioriic was a ))laiitfi' ami lived on his 
tariii. He was a man <if urcat iiidiisfrv and snin-it'ty. 
lie was his own cariientfi', conijer. and had a t'actorv at 
which hi* ha<l niad(; barrels and the like t'i)r market, 
which \va- a very protitahle ent(>r])rise in the days of 
"tar, ])itch and tiiriKMitinc" in North Carolina. lie 
carried on a fishery dnrin;.;- the tisliim; seas(jns. He was 
fund of stock, and of stock raisinu; of all kinds, and j)os- 
sessed a larfte nnndx-r of cattle, sheep, hous an<l the like. 
His avo:-ati<jns were ali<»nt the same as jiis father's, and 
his son, Elisha, siicceedeil him in the same line of hnsi- 
ness. His fondness tVir stock was inheriiecl hy his de- 
scendants, and is still ])ossessed, to a hiuii ileirree, hy hi.s 
descendants of tiie ))resenl day. lie was a maii;istrate 
in iiis county and a mendn-r of tlie Conrt of Pleas and 
(,)narter Sessions. lie cared lint little for official life, 
hnt ])referre<l a ipiiet home life in cumpany with his 
wife, and with his possessions. He kept well informecl 
as to the current e\cnls nf the limes, and had ids small 
lihrarv of bo(^ks around him. ihc rea<linii of wiiirh he 
much enjoyed. 

His wife was tlie sister of .lnhn ('o|ieland, ami auni 
of James ("opeland, who represented Hertford County 
in the House of Representatives of the .\orth Carolina 
(reneral Assembly, in ISlM and ISi':!. ami in the Senate, 
in lsi'4 and 182,-). ^^ 

'I'honias \Yinborne died in the early jiart of the BIh 
century, leavinjr snrvivinir him his widow and two chil- 
dren, Elisha, who was horn Xovendier (i, 17'-'2, auil 
Sarah Anatha Winhorne, about 17'.I4. Of these two 
children 1 will speak later mi in tliis book. The widow 



28 The Winborne Family. • 

of Thomas, souu'tiiue ;iflcr his death, luarried Mr. 
Roberson, and by that inarriaiic slie left one child, An- 
geline, who was boni about 1S12 and died in Missis- 
sii)pi December <:, IssT. Ani>,eline never married. A 
few yeai-s ])rior to bei' (k'ath she visited my father and 
my aunt, Caroline iloore, in M urf reesboro. I remem- 
ber her as a handsome, whitediaired, aristocratic old 
lady, well formed, literary in her taste, and a great 
talker. 1 think her fatbcT moved to Mississippi, and 
died there. He sold his farm in Hertford to Elisha 
Winborne, who owned it when he died. It was sold by 
Elisha's administrator, as appears on the account of 
sales now in my possession. 

I have the will of Charles Jenkins, of Hertford 
County, an ancestor of my Avife, and Tlnimas Winborne 
and Sarah Winborne are witnesses to it. 

The records of Hertford County prioi' to August 22, 
Is.'iO, were destroyed by the burning of the court-house 
by one Wright Allen, who was indicted for forgery, and 
on account of the destruction of the records, I am un- 
able to give more infoi-nuition of my old ancestors. I 
have had to rely on old private |iapers, letters and mem- 
oranda, found in my father's paiiers, and the records of 
other counties, and a mass of old papers which have 
accumulated in my possession in the course of my prac- 
tice as an attorney. Thomas and his wife lived true 
and nolde lives, and were greatly respected by the 
peo])le among whom they lived. N^o greater legacy 
could they have left their posterity. Their names and 
characters T reverence and admire. 

llis uncle, Thomas Winborne, and his wife, Sarah, 




JOHN isrOTSUiiiJli AMiKUsciX. 

ST. LOL'l^, 5IU, 

'iraiiilson ol A. M. (iurley and wife Sarah K. Son cif 
llielrdauslili-r Julia Ijy first niarriasc. 



Thomas Wixbor.xe. 29 

lived in Xorthaiupton County, in tlie Rich Square 
neiglilxjriiood, or rather his hiuds were situated on (Quar- 
ter Swamp, in that cuuutv. Quarter Swamp lies be- 
tween Bryant's Cross Roads and tiie Roanoke River, its 
waters passing from the west to the east, and empty into 
Trahaw Swamp, which runs uearly uortii and south, 
au<] its waters nni uurtli aud (•iu|)ty into Potecasi Creei<, 
and tlie latter into Mcljcrriu River, about one mile 
alx)ve its mouth, in Hertford County. Trahaw Swamp 
lies between the townis of Potecasi and Woodland. It 
is necessary to know the location of these waters in order 
to locate the lands of the Xorthauiplon Winborne fami- 
lies and the Winbornc-.Teid^ins lau<ls, <d' whicli we will 
speak later. 

Williaiu Saunders, July :;, IT-")*^. conveyed to Thomas 
Winl)orne, Sr.. a tract of laud <iu Qiuirter Swaiuj), a 
part of Josej)h Lane's ]i;/ktent. The dceil beitij; witnessed 
by James Grant aud Thoiuas IFuglies. Tiiomas Win- 
borne, ^larcii li'. \~t\-2. cuuvcyed this same land to 
James Grant. 

There was a third Thomas Winliornc. lie lived in 
Hertford Coimty at a later ju'riod than either of the 
other two, but of a different ancestry. See chapter 
headed "Bertie Couiitv." 



^ 



yo TiiK Wi.xiioK.NK Family. 



SARAH AGATHA WINBORNE. 

Was tlio sister of Elislia Wiiiborne. She married 
John Giirley, of ^lurfreesboro, N. C, the son of Rev. 
Hector Gnrley, of Hertford Connty, and his wife. John 
Gnrley was a school teaelier in Murfreesboro at the 
Hertford Academy, wliich stood on the lot later known 
as the Peter Williams residence lot. Eev. Hector Gnr- 
ley was an Episcopal preacher in Hertford Connty, both 
before and during the Ticvolntionary period. He was 
a ripe scholar and a strong defender of the English 
Crown and the Established Clmrch of England. He 
preached at St. Lulsc's Chapel at r.uckhorn, and at St. 
John's Chapel. He died about the close of the war of 
1776, and left surviving him two sons, John and 
Thonuis. The former married the sidiject of this sketch, 
and they had two childrou, .Vlbert Michael and Joseph. 
The latter died in Alabanui, lea\-ing a widow and one 
daughter. Albert ifichael moved to Columbus, Miss., 
in lS3fi, and engaged in the saddle and harness business. 
Before going to Mississi])pi he, in 1S35, spent about five 
months in Elizabeth City, X. C, as clerk. In 1839 he 
visited T^orfolk, Va., and Manney's Xeck, in Hertford 
Ciiuuty, to see his kin. He returned to his new home 
the same year, and nnirried, Jaimary 13, 1847, Miss 
Sarah Elizabeth Moore, Jackson, Miss., the daughter of 
John Spottswood Moore and his Avife, Mary V. Murry, 




ALltKKT Mlt'HAKL <ilKl.KV. 

l.XTK <►!• MKKIDI.W. MISS. 

Son olMuhti liurley and wile Sarah 
Aijnlha (Jmiey n^e Wiiihorrio. 



Saeah Acatiia \\']-m;i>i;.\i.:. 31 

iif lliat city, and reared a family of three sons, Hayden 
L., Jolin Albert, and Fi'aneis Asijury, and four daugh- 
ters, Lucy, Jidia il., Alary \'., and Sarah Agatha. 

Lucy died August, 1SS2, aged 17 years. Julia mar- 
ried a ilr. ('. B. Anderson, and iuui several children. 
He died, and she married 8. B. Barrish, and they now 
live in Columbia, Tenn. I liave received several letters 
from her. She has a daughter by her first marriage, 
-Miss Sadie Anderson, living in Ah-ridian, iliss., and 
.Fiihn Siiotswuod Anderson, who lives in St. Louis, Mo. 

-Miss Sarah Agatha Gurley died \\)rU HO, 1905, in 
.Meridian. She never married. Only two of the Gurley 
childi'en are living, ilrs. Barrish, and Ilayden L. Gur- 
ley, ilcridian, Miss. 

ALiry mari'ied a .Mr. Bullock, a prosperous merchant 
in Louisville, Aliss., and left several children. The 
lx)ys in IS'JO were engaged in the saddlery and harness 
business in ileridian under the firm name of Gurley 
Bros. Their mother died in April, 1877, and their 
father died February 14, 18!t7, aged 7S years and two 
months. He was born in MurfreeslMiro, X. ("., Septem- 
ber IG, ISls. Albert il. Gurley di«i nut live long in 
Columbus before he moved to Canton, in same State, 
where he reared his family. 

Rev. C. G. Andrews, in a written sketch of his life, 
character and worth, speaks with great laudation of his 
Christian cliaracter, his splendid influence in his city 
and in his church, and as a man wlHwe great industry 
was guided by a broad and masterly intellect and well 
poised mind. 

In 1875 he moved with his family to ileridian, in the 



3y The Winbobne Family. 

same State, where he lived imtil his death. He accumu- 
lated a larjj'e estate, and his sous, in the fall of 1890, 
succeeded him in Ids Inisiui-ss, after he retired in his 
old age, and wn-e doing well and were prominent citi- 
zens in that city of about 35,000 inhabitants. He was 
a member of the ]\Iethodist Churcli. I- gathered the 
iihoxe facts from a lettei- I found written by him to my 
father, dated October ■^. ISilO. In that letter he speaks 
of his mother, who died when he was young, as did, also, 
Ins father, and speaks affectionately of his uncle, Elisha 
Winborne, his cousins, and expresses a hope to be able 
once again to visit IMurfreesboro and Manney's Neck, 
wliere his happy young days were spent, and com- 
mune, before the end came, with Jiis kin and old 
friends, wlio might be living, lie failed to tell in his 
letter what kin, if any, was his grandfatlier. Hector 
Gurley, to Eev. "\Vm. Gurley, of Hertford County, a 
Bai)tist preacher in that county, and who also preached 
at St. Luke's and St. -lolin's ('ha]iels during the Revolu- 
tionary period. 

On .Tune 24, 1905, I received a letter from Hayden 
L. Gurley, of Meridian, Miss., telling me of the death 
of all his brothers and sisters except his sister Julia. 
His sister Julia, in one of her letters to me, speaks of 
finding letters among her father's i)apers from his 
cousins, S. D. Winborne and R. H. Winliorne, and that 
she has them now. ^Ir. A. il. Gurley, in his letter to 
my father, speaks of the deatli of their half aunt, Ang-ie 
Roberson. She was the daughter of the widow of my 
great grandfather, Tliomas Winborne, who after his 
death married Mr Roberson. She is spoken 




Mlts. >AI;aI1 Kl.l/.AIiKTIl i.l lil.EV ,i,e M( m 1|;|:. 
WilV 1)1 A. M. liiiilcv. 



Sakah Agatua Wixborne. 



33 



<jf, also, in oiif of my father's letters, in 1845, to his 
brother Kolx-rt. Elisha Winhoriie boiiiilit of ilr. Rob- 
ersou his tract of land iu Hertford County, when the 
latter niove<l to Mississippi. The land was sold at the 
sale of Elisha's property in 182!l by his administrator 
to Ely llarrell, as appears from the account of sales. 
Since writin<>: the above I have learned of A.E.Gurley, 
Williamantic, Comi., that lie had a complete history 
and ficnealogy of the Gurley family. I wrote to him 
and soon learned from him that my facts about the fam- 
ily were correct, and that he had a complete history of 
the family, both iu the old countries and iu .\merica, 
hack to the year 117.5. The original one, so far as his 
record goes, being Ingelram de Gurley, who accompa- 
nied "William the Lion'' from Xormaudy, Erance, to 
Scotland as his legal advisor. 




34 The Wixbokne Family. 



ELISHA WINBORNE. 

The son of Thomas Wiuborue and his wife, Sarah, 
(lied July 30th, 1829, in his ;57th year. Like his father, 
ami his oldest and yonngest sons, his life was short, but 
he left the record <>{ a true life, <d' which his family was 
|)nnid. lie left no proud uiilitary record or official 
Fa nil' as a Iciiacy to his sons, for his short manhood was 
s|)('Ut in times of peace. He tilh'd ni:i great civil office, 
fur his life was short, and by nature, like his father, he 
hived his hdiiie and his faunly better than he did the 
allni'iiig phantiaiis df public life. Further, he sprang 
fnnii a faDuly \\li(> considered tiie realities of life more 
than the siuidows. He inherited the vim. industry, fru- 
gality, and character of his ])areuts. 

On Ai)ril 1, isili, he married Miss Martha Warren, 
(if S(intham])t(iu County, Virginia, the daughter of 
Kthelred AVarren, and a wouum of sublime Christian 
character. 1 will sjieak of lier more ])articularly later on. 

Klisha, (luring his short life, accumulated a creditable 
estate for those days. He was no large property holder, 
no wealthy man, but a comfortable liver. His sister's 
brother, Eobert Warren, in Se])temher, 1839, qualified 
as administrator of his estate, and on December 31, 
1829, had a general sale of his ])roperty. I have in my 
possession the account of sales of tlie property, which is 
to me quite an interesting old document. It records 




Ml!. Kl.lsiiA \viMi<ii;.\i:. 

nK HEHTKOKIi lOfNTV. N. ( . 

IMeM in 1S2!): Aw.! :!7 ywir-. 



Elisha Wixjjoknk. 35 

tlif iiafni'e of liis ])ni]HTfy, ;iii<l, also, rcvt-als tlic iiiaii- 
niT of scrtliiii>- tlic estate of a <lea<l man in those days. 
Kverytliiiio- was sold. The family liiiile was sold and 
hoiiaht hy the widow. His three farms, -'the Home 
])laiitatioii."' "llie Roherson ])laiitation,"' and '•the Lower 
plantation," were sold at the sale. Three slaves, Ca-sar. 
•laeoh and Willis, were sold. 1 reinendier these old 
slaves w(dl. They were owned hy my father. Ca-sar 
died dnrinii slavery times, .laeoh and Willis remained 
with my father ami were faithfnl to the close of the 
lale Civil War hetween the States. No slaves ever had 
a kinder and a more hnmane master than did these old 
servants. They love<l their yonnj>- master, and wonld 
have fought for him nnder any eireiimstanees. 

There were sold horses and a (•om]>leU' oiiiHt for a 
well ke])t three or fonr-horse farm, an am[(le snpply of 
provisions of all kinds, carpenter and cooper's tools, and 
such a variety of harrels that woidd indicate that he had 
a harrei factoi'y, which was a great and prolilaiile enter- 
jirise in those days. The old-lime ■"gig" was sold. The 
fishing ontfit. A nnndier of cattle, sheep, hogs, and the 
like, tlie hnnlsman's gnns, the hnnting horn, hridles ami 
saddles, the flax-wheel, the s]»inning-wheel, lihrary of 
l)ooks, and nearly everything that conld he fonml on a 
well regulated jdantation can he found in the account 
of sales. Elisha Winliornc, I wonld jmlge, was not 
only fond of tilling the soil, raising stock, ami fishing, 
hnt that he was also fond of the sport of hnnting. and of 
the flesh of the venison, an<l oi the mnsic of tlu- chase. 
The ■"Lower ]>lan(ation'" was the Co|)(dand land, and he 
inherited tliat thronnh his mother. 



36 The Winborne Family. 

Tlic c-liililrt'ii of Elislia and _Martha were: 

ilicajali Tlidinas Winborne, born February 4, 1820. 

Samnol Danlcii Winborne, born Alarch 7, 1821. 

Margaret Ann Winlmrne, born November 18, 1822. 

Caroline Ann \'\'inl)()rne, born May '■>, 1824. 

Robert Henry U'inborne, liorii .Inly 21), 1826. 

Kieliard Winborne., born Ans;'ust 1, 1828. 

Tile niotlier and all tbe children, except Margaret 
.\iiii, wlio die<| ill infancy, .survived tbe husband and 
father. ^Margaret and liev father were bnried in the 
family graveyard on the r)ld homestead, by the side of 
I heir parents and grandparents. The widow and her 
ti\-e little ehildren were left to battle with tlie storms 
and adversities of life. The children began early to 
learn the responsibilities of life, ami that fact was 
probably a great help to them in after life. Fortu- 
nately, however, for the widow and the fatherless chil- 
dren, IJoliert Warren, the batcheh.ir brother of the 
widow, took uKither and children to his home, wdiere the 
willow found a charming home, with one of tlie truest 
and noblest Virothers that has ever lived, and the chil- 
dren, not only fotmd an uncle, but another father, wdiom 
they always reverenced, loved and respected in the high- 
est degree. Tiie home of Robert Warren was made the 
home of Elisha Winbome's family, and is still the home 
of Kobert Warren's gran<l nephew, Samuel P. Win- 
borne. A nniiiber (d' the family were buried on the 
soiitliern hill on the old ('edar Hill farm. Elisha Win- 
borne's life was short, but sincere and lionorable. A 
true citizen, devoted husband, sincere friend, and an 
honest and highly respected gentleman. 



Elisha Wixbokne. 37 

lie, like liis father, and liis grandfather, left a fair 
estate, sufficient to paj' all of iiis debts and leave a small 
estate to each of his children. IIo was a consistent 
member of the Baptist church at Mt. Tabor, in his na- 
tive county. 

The account. -rt' sales of his property, a copy of which 
1 liave,slK)Ws tluft Nicholas ,\ske\v bought his "Robersou 
plantaiidU," and VAy Ilarrcl bought his "Lower planta- 
tion,'' and the "Hdme ))lantation"' was bid off by 
Thomas IJritton, who transferred his bid to Henry 
Lacetter. These lands were subsequently purchased by 
Perry Carter, of Murfreesboro, who con\eyed a portion 
of them to the late Joseph Xcwsom and a portion to 
>>"at!ian S. lloggard. Of the remainder I am not able 
to learn. Tiionuis Britton bouglit his library of books, 
who died ami left two sons, \V. T. Jiritton and Jack Brii- 
ton, both of whom have gran<lchildren in Hertford 
County. I have made a diligent but ineffectual effort 
to get some of these books from that family. 




38 The Winuorxe Family. 



MARTHA WARREN. 

The wife of Elisha W'iiiborue was born January 25, 
1795, at the Warren homestead in Sontliainptou County, 
Virginia, adjoining my father's farm. 

Martha was of tlie noblest type of true womanhood. 
She was always bright, cheerful and happy in disposi- 
tion, strong in character. She had light hair and fair 
complexion, large and liandsome, and attractive, even in 
her old age, and loved by all who knew her. She lived 
a cheerful and beautiful Christian life, and was a con- 
sistent member of the Baptist church u]i to her death. 
It was always refreshing to be with her and hear her 
talk, as she was interesting at all times. There never 
was a mother more respected and really loved by her 
children, n<pr a graudmotlier more loved by her grand- 
children than ilartha Winborne. After a long and 
happy life and after shedding so nuich sunshine in the 
lives of so many people, she died December 23, 1S78, in 
iior S4th year. She was the ninth child of a family of 
twelve children. Iler yiKnt ^ ' ront grandfather was 
Samuel Warren, who purchased the Warren homestead, 
now in Southampton County. Va., but then in Nanse- 
moud Comity, Va., from William Gooch, March 31, 
lT3fi. Tliis deed is now in my possession. It is a 
curious old document. Tier father was Ethelred War- 
ren, son of Samuel, and he was born January 16, 1749. 



;M.ujtiia Wakkex. 39 

Ilcr mother was ^fargaret Kiddiek Darden (who was 
bom February 2."i, ITCiD), and the wife of Ethelred 
Warren. They were married October 12, 1775. Ethel- 
red died October W, l.S()7, and .Marsraret, liis wife, died 
ilay 12, 1S:]4. The offs]iring.s of this marriage were 
twelve eliildreu, as follows: 

Ann Warren, born Augnst 10, 177G, and married 
Allen ^loore. 

Samuel Warren, born .Inne 1(!. 177s, and died July 
3, 1789. 

Pleasant li. Warren, iwirn December 2!), 1781. 

Jetliro Warren, bnrn OctoU-r 27, 17s-'5, and moved to 
(ireene County, X. ('., and there married. He died 
leaving one child, Richard I). Warren, who lived in 
Snow Hill, (ireene ("ounty. X. ('., and married there 
and i-eared a large family, several <if wiiom are now liv- 
ing in that cunnly. I remcndx-r seeing him when on a 
visit at my faihers home, when I was a very small 
boy. Aly reciillection uf him is, that he was tall and 
slender, with dark hair and beard. I have in my pos- 
session a letter from him to grandma .Martha, dated 
Snow Hill, N. ('.. OctolK'r 2S, ISGn, in which he speaks 
of his family, and the sad results of the war reducing 
his financial condition froni one of easy comfort to one 
one of hard struggle to su])port hi.s family. 

Elizabeth Warren, l)orn April 10, 1788, and first mar- 
ried Thomas Weston, of Hertford Count,v. He died 
and she married Thomas Gritlith. There were no chil- 
dren by either marriage. 

Edith Warren, Iwrn December 29, 178.5, and married 
John Moore. 



40 The Winborne Family. 

Etliclrcd Warren. Jr., liorn April 9, 1790. He mar- 
ried Lydia Mnrdniigli, df a ]iroininent Virginia family. 
She was very liaiid.'^oiiie and foud of social life. I found 
among my grandma's old letters, an artistic little card, 
on which was written the following: 

"Mrs. Lydia B. Warren will receive com- 
l^any on Fri<hiy, (Itli May, at 7 o'clock p. m." 

This card was enclosed in an envelope equally as ar- 
tistic, and directed to "Mrs. Martha Winborne." The 
year is not given. 

These were the parents of the late Joseph E. Warren 
and William G. Warren, and the grandparents of the 
present Ryland Warren, son of Joseph, and Miss Sallie 
Warren, the daughter nf William. 

Ixyland still owns the old Warren Homestead, and 
Sallie lives at her father's old homestead on Meherrin 
River, in Manney's Neck, in Hertford County. 

Robert Warren, born July C^, 1792. He lived and 
died on his "CV'dar Hill Farm," in ilanney's Neck, in 
Hertford County. Of this splendid person I will speak 
later. 

Martha Warren, boni Janiuiry 25, 179.5, and became 
the wife of Elisha Winborne. 

Margaret Riddick Warren, named for her mother, 
was born Decendu'r :], 1797. She died in 1S81 in her 
S4th year. She never married. 

Priscilla Warren, born April 28, 1801, and married 
Perry Carter, of Murfreesboro, N. C, a man of wealth 
and of large business interests, and a gentleman of aris- 
tocratic bearings. Thev reared a family of several 



Maetha \Vai;ue.\. 41 

(liiughters and one son, all of whom were liiglily edu- 
cated and greath' adorned the social circles of their day. 
Tiiey have one daughter now living, Miss Ellen Victoria 
Carter, who was a great heauty wlien young, and who 
was imicii admired l)y a host of siiiti>rs, all of whom she 
declined. She is now living at the Old Homestead in 
.Miirfreesboro, X. C, with one of their granddaughters, 
iliss Pri.scilla Warren Williamson. They were the 
parents of the late distinguished Hajitist divine. Rev. 
.Jose|)li Iv Carter. They have grandchildren, also, in 
Kaleigli, X. ("., (Mrs. John E. Ray), in Philadelphia, 
Pa., in Colorado, in Florida, anti in tiie northwest. They 
are a very intellectual people. 

-Mr. Carter was the family bidder at the sale of the 
])roperty of my grandfather, Elisha Winborne, in De- 
cember. 1>!29. 

Sanuiel Darilen Warrt'U. horn heceiiiiier 4. ISO."*, and 
died .Itme 7, ISIS. Their first ciiild, whom thev 
named Samuel, died at eleven years of age, au<l the sec- 
ond oni', named Samuel, died at the age of thirteen. 

Of the above large family of children but few of their 
<leseendants are now living. 

Ethelred Warren, their father, served in the Conti- 
nental army of ITTt! for American freedom and was evi- 
dently an officer of high rank. Ilis old sword, gun and 
two pistols, epaulettes, used in the war of 1776, re- 
mained at my old home, in the ]ios.session of grandma 
Martha, up to the time T left home for school in 1871. 
What became of them after that, I do not know and can 
not find out, except that my brothers and sisters tell me 
it is ]n'obable they were destroyed in a fire that con- 
6 



42 The Winborne Family. 

sunied an old house in the coruer of the yard, iu which 
many of the old family relics were stored. Grandma 
regarded them as sacred hcirlndias, and she so often, in 
my hoyhood days, interested me in telling me about the 
war tales which she learned from her father. lie was 
in the battle at Yorktown when (Jen. Cornwallis sur- 
rendered his arms. 

Ethelred Warren, the l)rother of grandma, served in 
the war of 1812 in Captain Sebrell's company, of South- 
ampton County, Ya. He was a gallant and brave sol- 
dier, and a ])atriotic and devoted Virginian. He was 
mustered out of the army, after the war, in the city of 
Norfolk, Va., and walked home, in company with two 
army eompanions. AVlim he reached home he re- 
marked, so we have l)een told by the older members of 
tlie family, that he was about exhausted, and that if 
lioiiio had been one Imudrcd yards further he would 
have fallen by the wayside. 

Ethelred Warren, Sr., although he lived in Virginia, 
I find from the records of the Secretary of State's oifice 
in Raleigh, a grant to him from the iState of 36 acres of 
laud iu ]\Ianney's Neck, dated Xovendier 17, 1790, ly- 
ing on Poplar Branch, and adjoining the lands of Carr, 
Ridlev and .Tethro Darden. 



^~W^ 



•T 




-MICA.IAII 
l>k"i| ill 1SI2 ill Moliile. AIh. 



r. WINItoKM-;. 

(if Vi'IImu 1-..V.., 



I u'-'il Si >i'ar>. 



AIlCAJAU TllUilA.S W'lNUIJUNK. 4'i 



MICAJAH THOMAS WINBORNE. 
."* •* 

Necessity is a fipvcrc master. Oltt-dienee t(j tliity ex- 
cites atiiiiiratidii. Devotion to iiiotiiiM-, lirotluM-, sister, 
aiul iiiiclc. and love of fellownian. arc snhlinic traits of 
liiiiiiiiii ciiaractcr. Tlicv arc possessed bv tiic uol)ic and 
tile true. Siicii was the vonuji I'lan wiiosc name appears 
alMJVc. Fatherless, witii a \vido\vc(l inotlicr with live 
yoiiuj; chihlrcn ile])cndent almost entirely ii])on the 
b(tiinty anil love of his nncic, Kolx-rt Warren, for sup- 
port, thi- yoiiiiir man felt the necessity, at an early age, 
of makin'r an eti'ort to relieve his uncle and assist in the 
sup]Kiri and welfare of his mother anil brothers and sis- 
ter. He was llic .ildisi. At the early asje of fifteen 
years, we find liini i-lerkini; for Lewis .M. ("owper, in 
Mtn-frcosboro, X. ('., where lie remained abiuit fifteen 
months. Mr. Cowjicr havinj;: closed his business to accept 
office, youuii' AViid)orne finds employmeni with Webb \- 
("a])eliart. in Windsor. X. ('.. where he remained for 
about two years, when he soUjLrlit and obtained a situa- 
tion with Paul it' Peirram, of X'orfolk. Va., and after a 
while he seeks a still more lucrative em]doynu'ni in the 
city of Paltimore, and while there his services were 
soufiht by W. II. i- Ti. TJnrdsall, a larire mercantile firm 
in ^lobile, Ala., where he went in Octolx'r, 1S42. Hut 
the youns: life, so full of promise, was soon ended. In 
Sei)tember, 1843, he was taken sick with yellow fever. 



44 The Wi.nbokxe Family. 

and after an illness of two days, on September 19th, 
l'^4;!, he ])ass('d awav. far from the land of his nativity 
and the loved ones at Jiome, who thought of Mike as an 
ideal Imy, At flic request of .Madam Le Vert, wife of 
Dr. 11. S. I.e Vert, he was Iniried in the city cemetery, 
ill the ])rivate lui of that gocid lady, by the side of his 
yonng companion, a Mr. Scott, from Virginia, who died 
from the same cause about the same honr. A beautiful 
monument was erected at his grave by his new made 
friends. The letters from -Tames Thomas Smith, A. G. 
Parker, Xelson Parker, and others, of Mobile, to my 
father (and now in my possession) about the life, char- 
acter, death and burial of his brother, are convincing 
proof that he was held in the highest esteem by the best 
people of that city. The letters of recommendation 
from his former employers, when he went to Ijaltimore 
from Xorfolk, are the most flattering. His letters indi- 
cate that he had a very high order of intellect, and was a 
thoughtful and observant young man, far above the aver- 
age. While in Xorfolk he secured from ITfin. Kenneth 
iiayuur, a mend)er of Congress from Xorth Carolina, 
the aiipointment of his brother, Samuel, as a cadet to the 
Pnited States Military Academy at West Point. And 
w bile in Baltimore I find him writing to his uncle, Rob- 
ert Warren, about bis brothers, luibert and Richard, ex- 
])ressing a purpose of preparing Robert for the naval 
academy, and of trying to secure his appointment from 
Congressman Rayuor. Tn his letter lie writes that after 
getting Robert, (whom be comiiliments by referring to 
him as a very bright boy), provided for, he will then look 
after his youngest brother, Richard. He also writes in- 



]\Il(A.IAlI 'I'lKlMAS WlMii 



45 



telligeiitlv of the ilcliales in ( 'oiiiiress, and tlic dilferent, 
k'iuling statesmen of that i\:\\. IIo died at the age of 
•23. Ilis life was a brilliant meteor of merit anil native 
ability. His lirotlier Sam settled his estate. The 
brotherly devotion of the W'inborne boys for each other 
is sublime. 




46 The Wixbokxe Family. 



MAJ. SAMUEL DARDEN WINBORNE. 

The seeoud cliild of Elislia Winbonie and his wife, 
ilartha. Gen. IJohf. E. Lee is quoted as having said 
tliat "Duty is the sublimest word in the English lan- 
guage," and all that the word implies was the guiding 
.star of Sanuiel Darden AVinborne, in his conduct as son, 
citizen and father, and in all the other i-elations of life. 
He was born on the 7th day of March, 1821, in Winton 
Township, Hertford County, JSTorth Carolina, and died 
on the 3d day of Ai)ri1, ISO."), in his seventy-fifth year. 
His long life was one of activity and usefulness. Hav- 
ing been left fatherless when about eight years old, he 
and his widowed mother and his young brothers and sis- 
ter were taken Iw his batclielor uncle, Robert Warren, 
to the farm of the latter in Manuey's Neck Township, 
of the same county. \t this early age he commenced to 
dc\-Mtc liiiusclf to the duties of tlio farm, and to the care 
and support of those so tmfortunately deprived of their 
natural iirotector. His energy, thoroughness and good 
l)usiness judgment soon gained for him the confidence 
and affection of liis uncle, and made him of great assist- 
ance and usefulness. From time to time during his 
youtli, and when his services could be spared on the 
farm, he attended TJuckhorn Academy and made the 
most excellent use of liis opportunities. 




Ma.i. s. II. WIMSciKNE, 

OK HKU ll-'01il> corxTv. 

Died April 3, 1S95, ageil T4 years. 



Ma.j. Sa>[uel Dardex Wixdorxe. 47 

In 1840 he was appointoil hy I fun. Kenneth Rayuer 
a cadet to the United States ililitary Academy at West 
Point, where he .succeeded well, and was a room-mate 
of the late illustrious Gen. \V. S. Hancock. As inter- 
esting evidence of liis pleasant memories and associa- 
tions of this ])erio(l of his life, I copy the following let- 
ter and invitation, now in my possession, and found 
among his papers at his death: 

'"TiiF, (^oiii's OF Capet.s 

Request the ])leasnre of the comjiany of ^Fr. Samuel 
Winborne at their Military IJall. to he given on the even- 
ing of the ;5(llh of August. 

>rAXAGEKS. 

C. T. Baker, -1. -T. ('. Bibb, 

T. ('. Hammond, W. T. Hurwell, 

;M. Lovell, W. 1.. Crittenden, 

L. il'Laws, W. S. Hancock, 

E. K. M'Lean, .\. Pleasanton, 

II. .M. Whiting, 1). B. Sacket." 

Written at bottom: 

"With Kksi'ects of ai.i. the Fellows. 
Camp Tyler. West Point, N. Y., August .5th, 1841." 

The postage was 25 cents. 

"GovERx's IsLAxn, N. y., July 9, 1880. 
My Deak Wixborxe : — I received an hour since your 
favor of July 5th. Be jdea.sed to accept my thanks for 
your recollection. I had a note frotn Peck a few days 
since, and then I thought of you. and those of our 
friends who attemjttcd to put him out of the window of 



48 The \Vix borne Family. 

Xo. -'7 'Cnc'liloft,' North Barracks. That wouhl be 
considered 'hazing' to-day. Your letter shows yon have 
(hme well in life. * * * 

It is qnite interestinp,- to read of yonr past history 
since we have met, and 1 am rejoiced that yon have 
been enabled to do so well for yonrscif and for yonrs. 
Yonr views of life and the past are all good, and it would 
1)(^ a i)leasnre to see more of yon. If matters turn out as 
yon expect I shall certainly be enabled to meet yon, and 
yon will have bnt to let nie know when you can come. 

Gill, during ami subs('(|uent to the war, was a superin- 
tendent of a Kentucky Railroad, made a fortune, retired 
and, I believe, lately died. 

Truly yours, Winf'd S. Hancock. 

Me. S. D. Winborxe. Bid(Jirl:<:r;]]r. N. C. 

What became of Wooten? "Tar River"' (Ilawkin) 
has died long since." 

After he had been at West T'oint about <me year, his 
own declining health, and that of his uncle made it 
necessary for him to resign and return home. Although 
only about twenty years of age, he at once assumed the 
active management of the farm, which was afterwards 
devised to him by his uncle, subject to the life estate of 
his mother and some other changes, and again devoted 
his energies to her maintenance, and to the support and 
education of his younger brothers and sisters. Their 
gratitude for these struggles and sacrifices of his early 
manhood were manifested by the warm devotion which 
they entertained for him through life. Having dis- 
charged his duties to them, on the .30th day of March, 



Ma.i. Samuel Daudex Winbokne. 49 

1S50, lie was united in marriage to >Mi's. Marv II. Mas- 
seiiljurg (nee I'retlow), of Soiitliaiui)t(.>n Comity, Vir- 
ginia, who was thereafter the loviug, alfectiouate and 
faitiifiil eom])anion of his life, and who survived him 
ahoiil five years. His marriage was a happy one, aud 
to the graeioiis iufliieiiee, eoiisiderate helpfulness, and 
sweet Christian eharaeter of his devoted wife, must be 
airrihiited iiiueli of his subsequent success. As hus- 
band and father he was affectionate and indulgent, and 
the luqipiness, comfort and welfare of his family, and 
the education of his children were ever objects of his 
loving solicitude and ])ri>videut care. 

Ill lN-17 he was appointed on tlie staff of C(d. Starkey 
Sliar]!, of the Hertford County Militia, with the rank 
of ^lajor. Among his old papers was found an order 
from Col. Sharp, dated ^lay 7. ISoO, commanding him 
to attend a general review in Wintoii on June 0, 1850, 
and to advertise tiie time and i)lace. At tiie oi)ening of 
the Civil War in iMll, when tlic militia was re-organ- 
ized fi>r the conflict, he was elected Lieutenant of the 
company, of which Win. J. ^lajctte was Ca]>lain. His 
coiii])any was not called into service, but during the en- 
tire war he was loyal and active in iiis support of tiie 
Cdiifedera.cv, and for the greater [lart of the time was a 
]>urciiasing agent of the Quartermaster's Department, 
commanded by Gen. Roger A. Pryor. He was a man 
of vigorous mind, strong will and unusual force of char- 
acter. His devotion to his State and county was in- 
tense, and he was esteemed by all who knew him as an 
exemplary citizen, lie never sought official position, 
7 



50 The Winborne Family. 

but took a deep interest in all public questions. He 
hail the courage of his convictions, and was ever ready 
to assert and uiaintaiu what he believed to be right. 

Before the war he was an ardent Whig, but after- 
wards an uncompromising Democrat. In 1872 he was 
elected a mend)cr of the Board of County Commission- 
ers of his county and served in that capacity for four- 
teen years. During much of this time the Eepublican 
mendjers of the Board were in the majority, and it is 
but just to say that it was duo in a large measure to his 
watchfulness, efficiency and unflinching courage that 
the deplorable conditions which existed, at that time, in 
so many eastern counties of the State, never prevailed in 
Hertford. By his services in this, at that time, most 
responsible position, he not only conferred lasting bene- 
fits upon his county, but earned and received the grati- 
tude and esteem of all good citizens. He likewise 
served as uuigistrate, before and after the war, and as 
tax assessor in his township, and here as in all other 
positions, piddic or private, he discharged his duties 
faithfully and fearlessly. 

As a neighlior he was kind and considerate, and as 
a friend proverbially loyal and true. ITis helpful hand 
was generously extended to every worthy ap]3eal of the 
suffering or unfortunate, and among his neighbors he 
was ever looked up to for liis sound judgment and wise 
counsel. He was frank and outspoken in all his rela- 
tions with others and scorned decc]ition and hypocrisy. 
Tn his earlier life he was not connected with any relig- 
ious organization, but for some years prior to his death 
had been a member of the Baptist Church at Buckhorn. 



^Ia.;. Sa.mujsl Darde.n Win borne. 51 

Death came to him svukleiilv, and douhtleris as ho would 
have wished, while he was still in the full possession of 
Iiis faculties and in the midst of his family. A few 
vears before, he had beeii partially paralyzed, and apjja- 
rently had almost recovered from its effects, when the 
last and fatal stroke seized him while conversing with 
his family at the dinner table. His remains were laid 
to rest under the shade of the trees in the old family 
burying ground at Cedar Hill, where his useful life had 
l)een sj)ent. 

His children were as follows: 

Clara Ann, born on the 20tli day of October, 1851, 
and died of ])neumonia while at school at the Chowan 
Haptist Institute, in ifurfreeslKjro. 

Benjamin Brodie, born on the 14tii day of April, 
1S54, and now living in Mnrfreesboro, X. C. 

ilary Elizabeth, born on the 11th day of August, 
lS5(i, and died, as did her sister, of ])neumonia, at the 
Chowan Baptist Institute. 

ifargaret Ella, born on tiic Kith day ><i' .\]iri], 1858, 
who married L. J. Savagi', of Norfolk, \'a., and now 
residing in that city. 

Robert Warren, born October 2. l^()l, and now liv- 
ing in Roanoke, Va. 

Martha Ann, born on the 28th day of July, 18(U, and 
the wife of Dr. Thomas I. Burbage, of Como, X. C. 

Samuel Pretlow, born on the HJth day of August, 
18fi(>, and now livinir at the old homestead, Cedar Ilill. 



52 TiiK Wimj(.)i;nk Family. 



A FEW STRAY THOUGHTS 

OF 

MY FATHER, MAJ. S. D. WINBORNE. 

My L-arliest distiiu-t recollection oi my father was in 
l^.'i!) or IStiO. He was well dressed, rather slender, 
weight about 14:5 pounds. He was sitting at night in 
the family circle talking over the excited condition of 
the country politically, and that he appi'ehended that 
the States would soon be engaged in a fratrieiilal war. 
lie depicted thc^ horrors of war in such a gra])hic man- 
ner that it made a lasting impression on me. He was 
a strong Whig, but when secession was favored by his 
State, he was absolutely loyal. 

lie was a man of great energy, great kindness, yet 
firm and as brave as a lion. lie liad about forty slaves, 
and no slave ever had a kin<ler and more considerate 
master. I never knew him to whi]> but one of his 
grown slaves, and that T remember as distinctly as if it 
were of recent occurrence. Edmond, a large, tall, and 
stort fellow, had treated one of the slave women cruelly 
and she complained to her master. Edmond kept shy 
of bis master for a day or so. One rainy morning my 
father went to the barn, and Edmond was in the room 
shelling corn. .\s he saw his master he made an effort 
to break out of the door, when his master caught him 
near the neck and threw him to the ground and bad him 
tied, and he whijtped him good. This was during the 



.Ma.i. Samuel Darde>,- WixBOENJi. 53 

war, and Edmond ran away sliorlly tlicroat'tcr. lie 
was tlie onlv one of Iiis t*la\Ts that left him before Lee's 
siirrend(>r. Maiiv of tlieiii stayed witli him for several 
years after the end of hostilities. He paid them wages 
.fi'om the em I of the war. 

lie was a mend)er of the Home Oiiard, and cue day, 
while he was drilling his men, back of the Buekhorn 
Academy, he gave the order to donble-quick (the mem- 
bers were not young), and as they started, one of the 
front men fell and abont a dozen others stumbled over 
him, and the whole line tund)led. Hut his sharp, shrill 
voice caused them to (luickly regain their ujjright posi- 
tion. I thought it a great joke and T went home and 
related the scene to my mother and grandmother, who 
greatly enjoyed it. 

He also held civil offices and was connected with the 
Commissary I)ef)artment of the Confederate Army and 
secured great quantities of su]>])lies for the government. 
While engaged in this work he had some vi'ry narrow 
escapes from being killed by the T'nion soldiers. I was 
with him most of the time and learned much of the 
real meaning of war. .\boiit ten days tefore Lee's sur- 
render, Lewis' riiiou Cavalry made a raid through 
l\Ianney's Xeck and robbed every family of nearly all 
they had. They reached my father's just after dinner. 
They catne suddenly and caught iny father unawares. 
He was sitting in his room loading his pistol as one of 
the number rushed in on him. Seeing the pistol the 
Yankee drew his pistol and commanded my father to 
surrender and give ii]) his pistol. The latter refused, 
but drew it on the Fnion officer. Thev faced each other 



54 The Winborne Family. 

for sevei'al miiiutey with drawn pistols, each threatening 
the otlier. I stood hy mv father holding his coat, ex- 
pecting to see one or both men killed, but the Union 
officer was intimidated and failed to rob the bureau 
drawers and other places in the house, as he intended. 
As they went out of the house with their pistols dra^\'n 
and threatening each other, and got to the yard gate, 
there appeared about twenty other Union soldiers. My 
father then surrendered his pistol. They had every 
mule and horse he had bridled to take away, except one, 
and they ordered him to bridle that one. My father re- 
fused, when another officer drew his pistol and pointed 
it to his ear and threatened immediate death if he did 
not obey. He looked the Yankee in the face and said, 
"You may kill me, but I will not bridle my horse for 
any man to steal." They failed to force him, and they 
left, taking every miile and horse with them. The im- 
bridled one they attempted to drive. She made her es- 
cape, in about a mile from home, and returned that 
night. He always had an extreme dislike for "cant and 
hypocrisy" of all kinds, and he did not conceal it. His 
bold and fearless demmciation of hypocrisy and deceit 
in men sometimes made him enemies. 

He was a great friend to the needy and the dis- 
tressed. He never turned one off who came to him for 
help for his family. During the dark days of war he 
was ever the friend of the soldier's family, and the- wid- 
owed woman, and the fatherless children. He never 
lost by it. 

He was a kind neighbor and friend. I remember, in 
1868, when his neighbor and friend, J. R. Darden, was 



Maj. Samuel Dakdex Winboexe. 55 

all broken uj) and disheartened by the results of the 
war, he appealed to my father, when the latter bought 
his farm, took a deed for it, paid him tlie money, and 
told him to renuiin there, and see if he could recover 
from his troubles. .M r. Uarden rallied from his troubles 
and my father, in November, 1872, re-sold him the farm 
for the same he gave for it, plus the interest on the pur- 
chase price. lie would help his neighbors, but never 
exacted any unjust reward. These deeds arc on record. 

He suffered largely by the civil strife, but his ener- 
gies never Hagged. and he went to work to rebuild his 
fortune. I was his only child old enough to bo of ser- 
vice to him. It is the proudest act in my life that I 
cheerfully entered the struggle and rendered him every 
assistance in my power. There was no work on the 
farm that I did not do my part. I took pride in enter- 
ing into his life work. He showed his warm apprecia- 
tion throughuut his life of my early efforts in his behalf. 
I so often reflect with great pleasure on that struggling 
period to rebuild a lost estate. 

In 1867 or spring of 186S I made my first trip to 
Winton. Two negroes from ifanney's Xeck, Kiddick 
Britt and Jim ^lyrick, were to be whipped, at the wiiip- 
ping post, fur stealing a yoke of o.xcn from Capt. W. J. 
Majette. They carried the oxen to Portsmouth, Va., 
sold tliem and came back home, when they were arrested, 
tried, convicted, and sentenced to be whipped. I went 
with father. K. G. Cowper was Sheriff of the coimty, 
and J. B. Hare was his deputy. The old whipping 
post had been torn (Io\\ni and the negroes were stripped 
of their clothes to the waist and swung to a limb of a 



ilC) The Winborne Family. 

cedar tree, tlieir feet hardly toueliino- tlie ground. 
SheriiT Cowper whipped Myrick ami Hare whipped 
Hritt. As the green-parched hickory whips woidd lash 
ai-iiund their unde bodies the skin woidd part and blood 
ilv. This was the last punishment of this kind inflicted 
ill this county. It was cruel and barbarcnis. I could 
never favor such punishment. This common law mode 
of pmiishment was abolished in North Carolina, August 
23, 186S. Acts ISiiS, eh. 44. Why was the law not 
changed earlier '< Read Prescott's Conquests of Peru 
and of Mexico. The question is hard to answer, 
although the American people were Christianized and 
civilized. 

My father tnld me that he had been informed by his 
old uncle, Robert Warren, that his brother, Richard, 
was in favor and statue like his grandfather, Thonnis 
Winborne. Frum reading the old letters of the family, 
anil from what my father told me, and the pictures of 
the old members of tlie Winliorne family, his great 
grandfather, Henry Winbnrue, was a well ]nT)portioned 
p-entleman, about ."> feet '.» or 10 inches high, with black 
beard and hair, strong body and mind, active, energetic, 
and determined in purpose. The pictures of the older 
members of the family im])ress me that he was no ordi- 
narv man. I regret we have no ])ortrait to ]iortray the 
character and features of this old gentleman. We can 
only find them iu bis offspring. Of all the great trials 
of mv father, the une that seeuied to exasperate him the 
most was his disfranchisement during the Reconstruc- 
tion period, when the ex-slaves were allowed to vote for 
the adoption of a State Constitution and for all govern- 



M\.i. Samuel D.u{DE^^ Winbokne. 57 

mental officers of the State, and lie and lii.s like disfran- 
eliised, and not allowed to vote. It is vivid in my miud, 
when the ex-slaves an<i the worse element of society, and 
the enemies of Sonthern homes, were allowed to vote 
and fix tlie laws, while the o\\Tiers of the soil, and the 
true menihers of Southern homes were denied a voice. 
This was irorsp Ihnu (he war. It did more to encamj) 
in the heart of the Southerner a dislike for the North 
than all el.se connected with the Civil War. I went each 
tiay to ^lurfrecsboro dnring this farce of voting- to carry 
the news at night to my father, who was willing to for- 
gi\-e all hilt this outrage. I find I am making this too 
long. I coiihl write ])ages ahont him. IFc was tlio ecmi- 
panion of his children. So mote it be. 




58 The Wixborxe Family. 



CAROLINE ANN WINBORNE. 

The flaugliter of Elislia Wiiiborne was greatly loved 
liy her brothers. As a youug lady she was handsome 
and iinieh admired. She married her cousin, Brittou 
Moore, of ^lurfreesboro, X. C, the sou of Allen Moore 
and his wife, Ann Warren Moore. They had several 
children, Arro, Thomas, -Tidia, Pattie, Lonnie L., 
Euclid and Carrie, all of whom are dead e.xcejit Arro 
and Lonnie L, Tucde Brittou .Moore died during the 
early part <<{ the late Civil War. Tlis wife and several 
children survived him. The war stripped them of 
much of their estate. They saved their home in ilur- 
freesijoro. They were looked after and cared for Ijy the 
widow's brothers, Samuel and IJoliert, until the children 
were educated and able to be self-sustaining. .Tulia and 
Huclid died young. Thomas died just as be reached 
manli((od. Pattie and Carrie nnirried in Chowan 
County, X. C., and were living in Edenton, X. C, at 
the time of theii- deatli. EacJi loft cbildi'en. Lonnie 
married Miss Virgil Calvert, of Jackson, X. C, and 
they are now living in Edenton, X. C, doing well and 
have several very ]iromising children. Miss Calvert 
was the grandilangliter of Samuel Calvert, of Jackson. 
The Calverts can boast of an aristocratic lineage. 
Their family history carries them directly back, in an 
uuliroken chain, to Lord Baltimore, who was Sir George 




.Mi;s. W. K. WATSON. 

I 'Illy livin;;(lilli):hlel' ol' 

t'anilirio A. Moorp nee Winboirn-. 



Caeolixe A.\.\ ^^'I.\B(>li^'K. 5y 

Calvert, and who obtained from Iviiii;- Cliarles 1, by 
whom be was Jiiucb liked, a eliarter for MaryhiutI, and 
wliicli was |)biuted after lii:^ death by liis sou, Cecil Cal- 
v(>rt, tlie second Lord Baltimore. 

Arrc marrii-d Ki'v. \V. F. Watson, a l>a])tist divine, 
and they are now livinn in Monroe, X. C. Arro is a 
very aeeoni|ilisbed and intelleetiial woman. She has a 
weifrbty iiody as well as a stroii<>- and vijinrons mind. 
Her mother iidierited mneh of the dis|iosilion and char- 
acter of licr niotlier. Her letters to her brothers, after 
they left home, were full of valnal)le information, 
wholesome advice, an<l encouragement to tlicm in their 
lite striiaijles. These letters were the products of a clear 
and strong mind. She died in Kdeiiton, X. C., .Xovem- 
ber 1st, isiis, jn<i seven days prior to the deatii of h(>r 
brother, Itoliei-t, who was the last one of that noble 
family to pass into eternity. She was a devout member 
of the Baptist church, having jvrofesscd religion when 
young. She and lnisban<l were for a lung time mem- 
bers of the old liuckhorn Bajitist ("burcli. I-'inally ihey 
moved their membership to the Baptist cliurcli in the 
town of their residence. Her brothers were, during 
their lives, devote<l to their sister. Her brother, 
Samuel, was her guardian and receive<l her share from 
her father's estate from liis administriitor. and m.inaged 
it to her advantage, and at her arrival at f\dl age he i)aid 
her every cent due her. Her brother, Robert H., was 
tiie administrator of her husband's estate. Xo sister 
ever had more devoted brothers. 

Britfon iloore's ancestors on his father's side were 
of Irish descent. T rememl)er well the favcn- and a])- 



60 



The Winborne Family. 



pearance of Eritton, Samuel, Albert and Henry Moore. 
Tlioy were brotliers. They were large, tall, handsome, 
and splendid looking men. They wore long beard, 
which they ke])t in perfect order. Their teeth were 
always white and ivory-looking. ISTeat in their dress as 
a S])artan Knight. They looked everv inch like the 
"Old Eoman." ' 





I'll, I!. U. WINIioHNK. 
OFCHliUAN (OINTV. N. i. 

I'leil Nov. 189S, aged Tl years. 



Dk. lioHKKT TTi;.\itv ^VI.\lsoR^'E. 61 



DR. ROBERT HENRY WINBORNE. 

Xo (•(jiiiitrv lias fver furnislied to the world higher 
types of iiiiinhooil than the •"Old South,'* and the subject 
of this sketch was a most worthy represeutative of the 
best products of liis tjay. His respect for woman was 
profound, and indeed in the gentleness and graceful 
cJiarm of the women of the "Old South," and tiie venera- 
tion in wliich they were held, will be found the secret of 
the knightly chivalry and courtly bearing of its men. 

Attractive iu ]iersonal ap]iearance, of pleasing man- 
ners and an entertaining conversationalist, he easily 
won the esteem and friendshi]) of those with whom he 
came in contact. High-toned and honorable in all his 
dealings, he always connnanded res])ect and confidence. 
]]{' was a great student and a man of extensive learning, 
but found recreation and pleasure in numly si)orts. He 
loved animals, and nature in all its f<jrms — the forest, 
field and ojien sky. Hunting was his favorite j)astime, 
and no music was sweeter to him than the nutny-voiced 
chorus of his hounds in the fox chase. Tie was a good 
story teller, and the centre id' an interesting group wlier- 
ever he found a congenial (•onii)any. Until afflicted by 
sorrow at the death of his sons, and ill health, life had 
many pleasures for him, iiiid he delighted in making it 
brighter for others. He was devoted to Xorth Carolina 
and all her interests. TTis knowledge of her historv and 



62 TiiK WixBORNE Family. 

Irailitidiis, ;iii<l liis ae'(j\iaiiitanft' with the public men of 
his day, was extensive and intimate. 

He was born on the 16th (hiy of July, 1826, and from 
early youth his bright intellect and thirst for knowledge 
gave promise of his subsequent attainments. His stu- 
dious habits, and scholarly tastes were encouraged not 
only by his mother and brother, but by his nncle, Robert 
Warren, with whom they resided after his father's 
death, and they gave him excellent educational advan- 
tages. In his youth he attended Bnckhorn Academy, of 
which Prof. -lohn Kemberly was then principal, and 
between him and his teacher was formed a warm and 
lasting friendshiii. In 1.S43 he matriculated in the 
T'niversity of North Carolina, gradnating with distinc- 
tion in June, 1S47, with the degree of A. B. Among 
his classmates were (Senator) M. W. Ransom, (Sena- 
tor) John Pool, and (General) T. J. Pettigrew, and 
others, wdio snbseqnently became distinguished, but he 
was excelled in scludarship only by Messrs. Pettigrew 
and Ranseni. The latter, in referring to his college 
class, of Avhich he was always proud, has often stated 
that the contest betwcn himself and the subject of this 
sketch, for the second honor, was very close. His schol- 
arship, as well as the esteem in \vhich he was held, is 
attested by the fact that he was the society valedictorian 
of his class in the Philanthropic Society, to which he 
belonged. His loyalty and devotion to his alma mater 
continued through life, and the alumni reunions in 1SS9 
and 1S95, which he attended, were to him occasions of 
the keenest ]deasure. After leaving the University he 
taught school for two or three years in Orange Hill, 




l;l( IIAUI) WlMliiKNK. 
NOI:|-MI,K, VA. 

Soil ol I'r. K. 11. WiiiboriKv 



De. lioBEKT IIkNKY WlMiOKXE. 63 

Floridii, and thereafter for about the same period in 
Tarboro, X. C. Among his ]nipils at the latter place 
were the late Judge Fred Phillips and Dr. il. B. Pitt, 
now of Edgecombe Countv. \Vhih> at Tarboro au inti- 
mate frieudsiiip was I'ormcd JK^tweeii liiiii and the late 
Judge Howard, which continued through life. In the 
fall of 185;? he entered tlie medical department of the 
University of Virginia, wlicre he remained one year, 
lie continued iiis medical studies at Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in the sum- 
mer of 185."). Shortly after his graduation be located 
in Chowan County, near Holly's Wharf, for the prac- 
tice of his ]n-ofessiou, and hei-e he continued to reside 
until liis death, on Xoveudier 7, ISDS. He ranked high 
iu ills profession and ])ractice<l with much skill and suc- 
cess. For years he was an active member of the Xorth 
Carolina Jledical Society and was among its first Presi- 
dents. It has l>een the good fortime of but few men to 
be more sincerely loved by his neighbors than Avas Dr. 
Winborne. Tan ilcClareu, in his beautiful story, "Be- 
side tiie Bonnie Brier Bush," says of the old doctor of 
Driiiiilochty, "he has served this glen with a devotion 
that luis known no reserve, and a kindliness that never 
failed." The same nuiy be justly said of this scholarly 
and skilled jiiiysician, whose response to the appeals of 
suffering and affliction was measured by no sordid sel- 
fishness. In s\inshinc and storm, cold or heat, night or 
day, whatever the discomfort to liimself, when disease 
or suffering called, he went, and often without reward 
or the ho])e of reward. We love to tell in song and 
storv of the heroic deeds of those who have faced shot 



64 The Winboene Family. 

and shell with luiilauiited lieart; but no man in the 
, trenches of Sebastopol or on the heights of Gettysbtirg 
bore himself with more knightly coitrage than did this 
good niau in battle with Imman suffering. Upon his 
tomb there cotild surely l)e no more appropriate inscrip- 
tion than the old and consecrated saying, "Greater love 
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for 
his friends." 

Aside from his professional attainments, Dr. Win- 
borne was an exemplary citizen, and took a deep interest 
in jiublic affairs. In 1805 he was elected a member of 
the Constitutional Convention of his State from Clmwan 
County, and rendered valmible services to his State in 
that body. On several occasions since the war he was 
urged to become a candidate for Congress from his dis- 
trict, but he preferred to devote his life to the noble pro- 
fession which he loved and adorned. 

On April 10, 1^62, lie was married to Miss Annie Fe- 
licia Parker, whose mother was. a Miss Skinner and the 
aunt of Hon. Thomas C Skinner, of Hertford, and 
Hon. Harry Skinner, of (!reeuville. Their children 
were as follows: 

Martha Warren, liorn ]\Iarch 27, ISfi;!, and now liv- 
ing at the old home of her father. 

Robert Warren, born January 10, 180.5, and died of 
heart disease on October 11, 1S90. At the time of his 
death he was a young physician of gTeat promise. 

Peter Parker, born June 2.5, 1867, and died June 3, 
1892. At the time of his death he had just completed 
his junior year at the University of Xorth Carolina, 
where he had maintained an exceptionally high grade of 




U II.J.IAM 11. »\ 1.\Iiii|;m„ 

( HOHAX COINTV, .N. i . 

r^on of Dr. R. II. Wiiibonie. 



Dr. Robert IIexry Winborxe. 65 

scholarship, and liis death was doubtless attributable ti. 
his excessive work as a studeut. 

Elizabeth Skinuer, born February 22, ItsTO, died De- 
cember 10, 1872. 

Kieliard, born February- (j, 1873, and now residing 
in Norfolk, \'a., where he is meeting with much success 
in business. On June 23, 1903, he was married to 
-Margaret Cofield Warren, of Edeuton, X. C, a member 
i)f tlie distinguished Warren family of that county, and 
tiiey now have one cliild, Margaret Warren, born April 
12, I'JOo. 

William ITutching-s, born Octolxjr 14, 187o, and now 
residing at the old home, lie was married on Decem- 
ber 28, 1!)(I4, to Annie T. Elliott, of ("howan County, 
X. ('., and resides at tlie homestead of his father. He 
is a leading citizen in his county and tlie present Chair- 
man of the Board of Education in his coimty. 

Mary Skinner, lx>rii ilarcli 10, 1878, and now teach- 
ing in Beaufort, X. C. 

doim Wallace, born July 12, 1884, and now a stu- 
dent in the senior class at the University of Xorth 
Carolina. 

Tlie death of his sons was a great shock to Dr. Win- 
borne, and not only saddened his life, but his health 
soon began to fail. For the last two or three years of 
his life he was a great sufferer from valvular insuffi- 
ciency of the heart, and tliis was the ultimate cause of 
his death. His brother, Sam, was the guardian of his 
estate when he was a minor. 



66 The Winborne [Family. 

"Jime 16th, 1905. 
Hon. B. B. Wisburne^ Murj'vecshoro, N. C. 

De.vr Wixborne: — Your letter of the 10th came in 
my absence. Ynuv nncle, i)r. 11. 11. Winbonie, did rep- 
resent Chowau ( 'oiinty in the Constitutional Convention 
of 1865, caHed to rehabilitate the State. He was a 
MTV itscfnl and intlnential nicndier there, as yon will 
see by the records of that body. According to my 
present recollection he never rejn-eseuted the county in 
ihc l('i;islatur('. lie was always, however, a Icailing fac- 
Inf ill the political and business affairs of onr connty, 
and I have rarely ever known a more thoronghly intelli- 
gent and conscientious leader i>f pul)lic thought. The 
county luis sntl'cn'd greatly by his death. We very 
greatly need leaders of his stamp. If 1 were called 
upon to name Dr. AVinliorne's ]iredominant characteris- 
tic, I would nieution open, honest candor and disgust 
and contempt f<ir anything which savors of cant or 
hypocrisy. [ never knew a man who so thoronghly hated 
cunning and meanness in ]iolitics, religion or business. 

T shall be delighted to aid you further in any investi- 
gation whicli you <]esire to make into the life of one of 
my best friends, whom I have always earnestly admired 
and loved. 

Yonrs sincerely, W. D. Pruden. 

Die— W. D. P." 




.loIlN » .\l,l,.\rK W INIiultNlv. 
C'HUWAN COirSTY, N. C. 

Son of I>r. I!. II. WInboriie. 



A.x.ME Fei^icia Pakkku. 67 



ANNIE FELICIA PARKER. 

'i'lic wife <if KiilHTt Ik'iirv \Viiil)uriK' (Ic-sei'iided from 
the oldest and most [iromiiieiit families of tlie Albemarle 
section. Her iiiateriial i;raii<lfailier was llciirv Skin- 
ner, of I'ei'ciuiiiians Connl.v, X. ('.. wlio was a direct 
descendant from Kicliard Skinner, of that cotuity, wlio 
was one (jf the jurors in the famous suit of l\'//(. Wii- 
liuiiis r. Will. Hull. It was an action of (Iclhiuc for a 
feather bed, 1 pair hiankets and 1 y/c/'/c. tried Ajjril 11, 
1704. (("ol. Kec, Vol. 1. ].. (WIS.) He was after- 
wards a mendier of tlie Colonial ilou.se of Assembly 
from his county in 1 7-'! I-17:*>'>. His son, Kicliard, was 
sheritf of the county in 17^!^. His son, .loiin, was also 
])rominent in tlie State bolli iiefore and after tiie war of 
177(i, was a member of tlie House of Assembly from 
17(i!l to 1771. He was corporal in Captain Katon's 
Company in the Continental army. Kidisted in .May, 
1771), aiid was honorably discliarn'cd Xovendier 1, 177>^. 
to serve as a civil officer. His brother, Thomas, was 
also in the Continental army, in ('apt. Blount's Com- 
])any, from Jnly 20. 177^, until the clo.se of the war. 
William, another .son. was a member of the Halifax (^on- 
aress, .Vpril 4th. 177(), and was by that body ai)])ointed 
Lieutenant in the Continental army, where he served 
with gallantry. 

Jonathan Skinner, another of the family, was also a 



68 The Wixhokxk Family. 

j>r<iniiii('ut man in the State from the East. He served 
in the lI<in..H' ivmn 177'.' In 17S5, except oue session, and 
again in the Senate from 17U0 to 1793. 

William Skinner married Miss Jeneslia Bond, of 
C'liiiwan C'linnty, and their son, Henrv vSkinner, married 
^liss Sarali Tioiierts. Henry was a member of the Hottse 
from Chowan ("onnty from 1S13 to 181.5, and in the 
Senate in lM(i. Their daughter, Elizabeth B. Skinner, 
marrieil Peter Parker, of Chowan Cunnty, and their 
daughter, Aimie Felicia, married Robert Henry Win- 
borne. 

.Mrs. Annie F. Winborne's ance.stry on her paternal 
side is equally as distinguished. Her father, Peter 
Parker, was the .son of Elisha Parker and his wife Eliza- 
beth ^STorfleet, of Chowan Coimty. Elisha Parker's pa- 
rents were Peter Parker, Sr., and his wife, Mary Wal- 
]ac<^, of Chowan, and Mary Wallace was the daughter of 
John Wallace, of Albemarle. The old John Wallace 
home was in Chowan Comity, abotit oue mile from the 
Chowan River, at Holly's Wharf. Annie Felicia's 
mother, after the death of her husband, Peter Parker, in 
1839, married Jonathan White, in ISl-fi, by whom she 
had several children. Her father-in-law liecame Annie's 
guardian, and after her marriage a suit was entered 
against her guardian for a proper .settlement. The re- 
sult of the suit never demonstrated to the plaintiffs that 
she had been squarely dealt with by her guardian. Win- 
hornc r. White. 69 N". C, 253. 

John Wallace (sometimes we find it incorrectly spelt, 
John Wallis), was a large land owner and a man of 
uuich wealth and influence. He was a Scotchman. A 



A.VMK Fki.ria Pakkkk. 69 

man of strong character, of great exeoitive ability, and 
a sueccssfiil business man. He flourished in the begin- 
ning and the first quarter of tlie ISfli century, and was 
loyal to his government. 

The oldest Jolm Wallace (Wallice) is a i)arty to an 
agreement, in KiC-a, between Edward Earle, of Claren- 
don, Lord Iligii Chancellor of England, (ieorge, Duke 
of Albemarle, and others. (Col. Kec, Vol. I, p. 7(i.) 
lie also served as a juror in February, Ui'Xi, (Col. Rec, 
Vol. 1, J). 388.) ifis brotlier, Robert Wallace (Wallis) 
was a member of the Court. (Vol. 1, p. -t:5."). ) Thomas 
Wallace (Wallis), of Chowan, died about IT.jO, and left 
a will, now of record in the office of Secretary of State 
in Raleigh. lie mentions his wife, E^lizabeth, his sons, 
\\ illiam, Johnothan, and John, an<l his daughters, Eliz- 
abeth, Judeth, Mary, and Susannah. Thomas was a 
brother of John, the ancestor of Annie Felicia. Wills 
were recorded in Raleigh in office of Secretary of Stale 
up to about 1760. 

Richard Winborne, son of R. 11. Wiuborne and wife, 
Annie F., married Miss ^rargarcl C. Warren, June 2:], 
1!)0;3, who.se paternal ancestry runs to Thomas 1). War- 
ren, of Chowan County, thence back to the Warrens of 
Williamsburg, Va., to Gen. Samuel Warren, of the war 
of 1776-82. They have one child, ^largaret Warren 
Winborne. Samuel Warren, the grandfather of Martha 
Winborne, wife of Elislia Winborne, a member of same 
family. Wm. TT. Winborn(>. sim of R. H. Winborne 
and wife, married December 28, 1!)04, ]\riss Annie P. 
Elliott, whose i)arents rank with old Chowan's best 
])eo])Ie. They live with his mother. Annie F., lives at 



70 The Wi.\u(jknk Family. 

tlu' (lid ancc\stral Ikulk — tlic Ikiuic <it' lier nld ancestor, 
.luhu Wallace. The old iiKimtr Imuse lias been added to 
and luudernized. It is now an ideal- conntry home, 
within one mile of the banks of the majestic Chowan 
Kiver, at a point where the distance across the river is 
between four and five miles. Tt is on or near the site of 
an old Indian villai;e or eitv. ller mother was the sis- 
ter of James Costen Skinner, the father of Hons. 
Thomas Gregory Skinner and ITarry Skinner, both ex- 
members of ( 'onii'ress, and the latter is now United 
States District Attorney for the Eastern District of 
jSTorth Carolina. Her two daniihters and yonngest son, 
John Wallace, live with her. Richard is in business in 
Norfolk, Va. 





lUCII Al:li W IMioKNK. 
Vimiii:esl son of Kll.-ha Wliiboriu-. 
Died ill ISti-i 111 LatiraDKe. Teuii.. u^ej 3:1. 



Richard Winborne. 71 



RICHARD WINBORNE. 

The youngest of the ehiklren, like his oldest brother, 
Mica jail, impelled bv a noble desire and ambition to 
seek his fortune in a strange land among strange people, 
in November, 1S48, in his twenty-tirst year, buoyant 
witli hope, left the homo i)f his mother, to whom he was 
so strongly and hivingly attached, and made his way to 
ilacon, Fayette Cuinity, Tennessee, reaching there after 
a journey of over live weeks. His letters to his mother, 
after reaching Tennessee, are pathetic and touching. 
They portray the feeling and unlimited devotion of son 
for mother, but at the same time showed phiek and de- 
termination, traits of character so strongly develojjcd in 
the nattires of his brothers. He remained Init a short 
time at JIacon, when he moved to LaGrauge, in the 
same State, where he spent the remainder of his days. 
He met with success in business. In 1S57 he mar- 
ried Ifi.ss .Maggie Howard, of LaGrange, a lady of 
considerable literary acc(im])lishments and refinement. 
T have a inuuber of her letters written to his mother. 
They had two children, Rolx>rt and Lillie. Fncle Rich- 
ard died in September, 1S(:'>2, aged 33 years. His wife's 
letter to his mother, conveying the sad tidings of his 
death, and of her heart sufferings in her loneliness, was 
a sublime expression of heart and head. The war swept 
away most of their estate. IHs wife and two children 



72 The Winbobke Family. 

survived liini. .Mr. W. 1'. Lipscomb, LaGrauge, Tenn., 
wild married his wife's sister, in a letter to me, dated 
-Iniie S, 1905, informs me tliat Iloljert died soon after 
tiie death of liis fathcn-. TIk^ widow re-married and had 
two cliiklren by lier seemid marriajie. She died June 
16, 1S7S. After the re-marriai;i" nf her mother, Lillie 
lived with her aunt, l\[rs. TTerndoii. In October, 1878, 
Lillie, while fleeing, witli lier auiils, Mrs. Herndon and 
Mrs. Lipscomb, from llie plague nf yenow fever, which 
was then throwing its dark shadows over sontlnvestern 
Tennessee, contracted the fever irom which she was try- 
ing to escape, and died in October of that year in Win- 
chester, of her native State. 

Richard met with success in business and won the 
respect and esteem of his fellowmen in his new-made 
home. He was reared to work on the farm, and at the 
same time to feel the importance of an honorable, dig- 
nified and chivali-ous bearing. It was but little trouble 
to him to succeed and make friends. His brother, Sam, 
in a letter to his brother, Robert, of ilarcli 26, 1848, 
speaks of him as follows: "Dick is ]iloug-liiug every day 
with me, and rides, at leisure times, as if he was Avorth 
thousands of dollars, and you will find him the finest 
looking man of all of us when von see him again."' Rich- 
ard's letters to his mother, brothers and sisters, after he 
went West, show the strong ties of love that existed be- 
tween them and bound them together by imperishable 
devotion. He, Sam and Caroline, had black hair, while 
Mike and Robert had light colored hair. 

His brother, Samuel C, was his guardian and re- 
ceived his i^art of his father's estate from the adminis- 



Iiicii Aiiii Win iKiiiM-;. 



73 



tratnr, Kdlx-rt Warri'ii, and iiiaiiaiictl it (hiring liis uii- 
noritv. Wlicn lie arrived al Iffjal ago iiis ijiiardian set- 
tled witli iiiiii ill full. Aud fruiu tinn- to tiiiic liis 
l)nitl)er, Haimicl, advanced to him the legaov left him 
in his rn-!e !{<ihert Warren's will, ixdore its matnrity, 
;iiid further siinis in additi" ii, to eiialilc hini to begin the 
hatfle of life. 

.\ftcr the death, in l^T^*^, of his nioflier. the antlior of 
lliis skeleli (|iialitied. in .\i>ril. 1X7!», as administrator of 
his I'nele Kiehanl Winhorne. and settled with his 
brother, Samnel, which settlement showed that the latter 
hail overjiaid the amounts due his hrother, Richard. 
(See tile records in Hertford ("oiinty). 

Richard Winhorne was a spleiiditl looking gentleman 
wiien I last saw liini in IStil. during his last visit home. 
I learn from one of his letters to his brother. Roliert, 
tliat he joined tlie Biickhoni Ba]itist ('iiiirch in l.s42. 



10 



The Winboene Family. 



ROBERT WARREN. 

No history of Elisha Winbonie's family would be 
fomplete without the name and character of Robert War- 
ren. After I he dcatli of his hrother-in-law, he became 
the loving head of that family, whom he took from their 
old home on the east side of Potecasi Creek, on the farm 
lately known as the Joseph Newsom farm, to his delight- 
ful home, "Cedar Hill," in ilaimcy's Xeck, the north- 
eastern ])art of Hertford County, when he made them. by 
his kindness, reverence and respect the devotion of a 
briither and an uncle, lie was a well-to-do old bachelor, 
who lived on his "Cedar Hill Farm," and his manners 
and style of living savored of the old Colonial gentleman, 
lie was a gentleman in the truest sense. Gentle, kind 
and atrectionate in liis dis])osition ; strong in his attach- 
uiculs; dignihed and courtly in manner; hrm and jwsi- 
ti\-e iu character. He was passionately fond of the sporr 
nf fox and deer hunting, and always kept his well trained 
])ack of houn<ls, which he greatly valuecl. He clung to 
the old style of dress, that so jieculiarly nuirked the old, 
well-dressed Colonial gentleman. His home was well 
known as "Cedar Hill."" and it is to-day a beautiful old 
country home. He was devoted to his sisters and his sis- 
ter ilartha's children. The letters written to him by his 
Winhorne nephews when fr<iui lionie ( a number of which 
1 have) show their wonderful <lcvotion to Idiii and ilis- 




UllHKin' WAUUEX, Ksy., 

nK lIEIETroltl* 40rNT^ . N. r. 

Tin- plillarilhrupic Ijrutlier of .MuKlin Wiiiboim.-. 
Ihe widow of Kll.sha Wluborne. 
He tiled In ISJti. 



Robert WAiiiiKN. 75 

close tlie lofty character of lliiri grand niau, this de- 
voted brother, and this affectionate and big-hearted 
niicle. 

He died ill .Tannary, ls4(!, and left a will, of whicli 
I lie fill lowing is a copy: 

ROBERT WARRENS WILL. 

■"I, Robert Warren, of the connty of Hertford and 
Stale of North Candina, being of sound mind and mem- 
ory, idit considering the nncertainty of my carthl,v ex- 
istence, do make and declare this my last will and testa- 
ment, in manner and form foUowing; that is to say: 

First. I lend to my sister, iiargaret R. Warren, the 
ii]il)er rouiii in the south end id" my dwudling during her 
natural life. 

Scroiiil. I leave the whole of my estate, that is, my 
huKJs, iuiduding my dwelling, improvements, etc. Three 
Negroes, viz.: Pompey, t'haney and Closes; my stock of 
all kinds, farming utensils, houstdiold and kitchen furni- 
ture to renuiin and be kept together in the care of my 
IK pbcw, Saimu'l D. \\'inborne, for the use and benefit of 
mv sister, Martha D. Winborne, during her natural life, 
and at her death or marriage 1 give and l)et]ueath >mto 
my ne]iluw, Samuel 1). Wiubfjrne, all my estate as above 
named by his jiaying to my nejjhew, Richard Winborne, 
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, to him and his heirs 
forever. 

And, lastly, 1 do hereby constitute" and a])point my 
ne])hew, Samuel T). Winborne, and my friend, Jet R. 
Darden, my lawful executors to all intent* and purposes, 
to execute this my last will and testament according to 



76 The Winborne Family. 

till' true- intent ;unl nu-anini;' of the same and every part 
and elanse thereof, lierebv rcvokinji' and declaring ut- 
terly \-oi(l all other wills and testaments by me hereto- 
fore made. In witness whereof I, the said Robert War- 
ren, do hereunto set my hand and seal, the 6th day of 
Febrnary, A. D. ISU. 

RoBKRT Wabeen. [Seal.] 

Signed, sealed, published and decdared by the said 
Robert Warren to be his last will and testament, in the 
presence of us, who, at his request and in bis presence, 
do subseriV)e our names as witnesses thereto. 

T. D. Vai^n, 
Sam'l a. Dahden, 
Elias Britt. 

State of Xoirni Cakolix.v — Hertford County. 

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 
February Term, 1.S46. 

Tlie within last Will and Testament of Robert War- 
ren, deceased, was exliibited in o])en Court at this term 
f(ir ])r()l)ate and the due executiim of the same proved by 
tlic oath of Samuel A. Darden, one of the subscribing 
witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. 

At the same time Samuel 1), Winlmrne, one of the 
executors therein appointed, a])|)eared in open Court 
and was duly qualified as such, and prayed and obtained 
an order for Letters Testamentary thereon. 

Test: L.']\1. Cowper. Clerk." 

Roliert Warren was the administrator of Elisha Win- 
borne and sold tlie pro]ierty of the estate in December, 



Robert Wakuen. 77 

1829. After liis death "Cedai- Hill"' remained as the 
liome of the Winhonie familv, and to-day is the home of 
l{ol)ert Warren"-; i;rand ncjilicw. Sanuiel Pretlow Win- 
borne. 

While nearly sixty year^ have rolled away since his 
death, yet he lives in the hearts of his grand nephews 
and nieces, like he did with their ancestors, and for 
wliom they clierish a feelinj; of devotion unparalleled. 
The [)Coi)le with whom lie lived .spoke of him as ''one of 
tlio noblemen." 

My father alone <|ualified as his executor and settled 
the estate. 




The Winborne Family. 



MRS. MARY HARE WINBORNE. 

The wife of Samuel Darden Winborne was a Miss 
Pretlow, of Soutliampton County, Virginia. Her an- 
cestors were Quakers, and sincere and pious people, true 
to their sect. Xo family in the Old Dominion stood 
better than the PretloAvs. Tlie old records of the family 
reveal that Thomas Pretlow and his wife, Rebecca, 
landed on o\<\ \'irginia s<iil fmm Kugland about the year 
1632, about ten years after the first Powhatan massacre. 
The Pretlows are of Norman origin, and the name was 
originally Predlow, so it is lianded do-mi to us from the 
(lid mendiers of the family. Acc(>rding to the tradition 
of the family, the male I'rcdhiws of Normandy were sol- 
diers in the Norman army, iind fought under William 
the ■ Conqueror in the battle nf Hastings, and that the 
mother of the Pretlows of England, as they were known 
after the Conquest, was a member of the royal family of 
William. This is going back to remote days, but they 
are family traditions, and it i> jn-oper to transmit them 
to (inr posterity. Pietnrning to the genealogy of the 
family as an American product, we learn that Thomas 
Pretlow and his wife, Relxicca, had by their marriage 
two sons, Joseph and Tlmmas, and one daughter, Char- 
lotte. 

The latter married a Mr. Harrison, who lived on 
James River in Virginia. I can not trace the history 




Mk« MAUV II. WlMliiKNE net- I'KKTI.oW. 

Wife of Major S. D. WInborne. 

Uied Augiisi 24. 1900. aged 72 year? and 7 inunllis. 



^fus. ^[akv IIakk WixnoRXE. 79 

f>f this iiiari'iage. 1 will relate an iiifideut, however, 
that iiiav help some one else who may have more time 
ami liettcr facilities than I, to search into it.s history. 

In the snmnier of ISTs or isT'-', while 1 was a young 
lawyer, living in Winton. X. C., I was at Old Point 
Comfort, ^'a., for a few days. While there I met a re- 
fined and well edneated gentleman of abont 5.5 or 60 
years old, of the name of Harrison, who was spending 
the summer there with his family, from Cincinnati, 
(^hio. lie inqnired of me one day where I was from. 
In the conversation I sjjoke of my mother being a iliss 
Pretlow, of Sontham])ton County, Va. lie at once be- 
came very nuicli interested in onr conversation and asso- 
ciations while I remaineil at Old Point. lie stated that 
one of his ancestors was a ^liss Pretlow, from that same 
county. I met his wife and daughter and found them 
very interesting. 1 left Old Point and went to Xew 
York. He learned where I was going and ]»resented me 
with a ticket for the tri]). 

There are two branches of the Pretlow family in \'ir- 
ginia. ily molher's family descended from Jose])li, 
and the other family <lescended from Thomas, Jr. My 
mother's grandfather was Jose])h Pretlow, who married 
Miss Ann Scott, of Southampton County, Va. They 
had only one child, Joseph. Tie married Miss ^lary 
Hare. January 8, ISIS, the daughter of Bryan Hare, of 
Xansemond Cotnity, Va. Bryan Hare married iliss 
Sarah Shc])herd, of Xansemond County, the sister of 
Solomon Shepherd, of that county. 

Joseph Pretlow and his wife, ^fary Hare, were the 
l)arents of my mother, ^fary Hare Winborne. nrr Pret- 



so The Winborne Family. 

|(i\v. Their children were: Zelinda Ann, born July 4, 
IS 111. Tiobert Scott, born Xyvil 7, 1S21. Joseph, born 
December 1, 1822, and died iu 1862, nmnarried. John, 
born April 12, 1825, and died December 19, 1901. He 
mai'ricd the accomplished Miss Deborah Kicks, of Rich- 
mond. Va. Thev had no cliild. Tiie widow still sur- 
vives, and lives at his old homestead, about five miles 
from Franldin, Va. Mary Hare, born January 30, 
1828. Sarah C, born September 18, 1832. Elizabeth 
A., born February 12. is;!.-), and died at my father's 
July 10, 18(i."., from typhoid fever. She was a very 
beautiful and attractive woman, and had many ad- 
mirers. 

My father qualified in Southampton County, Va., on 
the estate of my motlier's brother, Joseph, and in the 
winter of sixty-three and fcmr carried me to the late 
home of my uncle and left me thei-e with the overseer to 
liiok after matters and report to him when he would come 
up. I rememlier some of my experiences while there. 
Mv uncle was a Quaker and did not own slaves, but he 
had four or five negro l)oys "Ixnnid to him," and they 
renuuned after his death until the end of the war and 
the estate was closed u]). These boys occupied a house 
in the corner of the yard, and the potato cellar was under 
that JKiuse. T would often go over to this house at night 
and the boys would roast ])otatoes for me, and pick the 
banjo and dance for my amusement. It would amuse 
mv father very nnieli wIkmi he would come up and listen 
to my description of the dances. Zuni and Ivor stations, 
on "N". and W. Railroad, were the only nearby townis. 
That is where T went to buy a little candy. 



Mks. Mahy IIare Wixboene. 81 

ilr.s. Aim .Scott I'lX'liuw, widuw of Joseph, was stay- 
ing witli Ikm- l)rotlic'r, James Scott, a wealtliy old bache- 
lor, who lived in Southampton County, and had iier 
little granddauffhter, Sarah V. Pretlow, with her, when, 
on the night of Deeendier 14, l.s-iO, about t) o'clock, one 
.Matthew Drake, a white man living in the neighborhood, 
murdered .Mr. Scott at the gate of his front yard, and 
llien rail into the house and murdered ^Irs. Pretlow, my 
urandniother, and liltle Sarah, who was Iviug in bed 
asleep. Tlie servant girl made her escape and ran to a 
neighbor's house and gave the alarm. Drake was 
eatight, indicted, convicted, and hanged. Robbery was 
the motive for the murder. 

Zelinder .\nn Pretlow nuirried Edward Everett Hol- 
land, a planter, in .Naniemond County, \'a., about four 
miles from Holy Neck Chapel. They had several chil- 
dren, but only reared two sons, Charles E. and Edward 
Everett, Jr. Charles E. married a Miss Sue Jones, of 
his native county, and engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ne-is in Sufl'ojk, Va., and met with success, lie was 
killed Se])tembcr 21, lS!t4. at Poykin's, Va. He was 
waiting for a train and was standing on the railroad 
track, when an engine, shifting cars, backed a car on 
him and crushed him. He died just Ix^forc reaching 
Suifolk on the ti-ain, which was conveying him to his 
home. He left a widow and several children, who are 
living at his home in Suffolk. He was a devout member 
of the Christian Church. 

Edward Everett lives in Suffolk, Va. He is and has 
been for a number of years President of the Merchants 
11 



82 The Winboexe Family. 

and Farmers Hank of Xansenioiul, in Suffolk. He is, 
also, a well equipped lawyer in full praetice. He is 
now on Governor llontagne's staff and ranks as Colonel. 
He married Miss Olelia Lee, daughter of Col. P. H. Lee, 
of his coimty, and a distinguished officer in the Con- 
federate army. His wife died sc\-eral years ago, leaving 
one son, Pretlow, and one daughter, Bettie. He has 
never re-married. Fortune smiles upon his labors. 

Robert S. Pretlow uiarricd Miss Isabella H. Cook, of 
Isle of Wight County, Va. He lived at his father's old 
home until about ISfiO or ISlil, when he moved with his 
family to Dublin, State of imliaua, where they lived to 
his death, February :il . 1 SS."). Tliey had eight children, 
James, Deboraii, Mary, Bell, Jos(^])h, ('lotilda, Robert 
E. and Elizabeth. .Tames returned to Virginia about 
1S90, married a lady in Xansemoud County, and several 
years thereafter dieil iu I'^'aukliu, \'a., where his widow 
and childr(>n now reside. i)ehorali ne\-er married, but 
devoted luueh of licr life to teaeliiug. The last I heard 
of her she, l»y a very wise and judicious investment of 
her money in soiue real estate, had accunuUated a con- 
siderable estate and was living iu M iunea])olis, Minn. 
Roliert is a doctor in Indiana, ('lotilda is a missionai'v 
iu (lihara. ("ulia. Tlie whole family were sincere mem- 
bers iif the (^luiker church, and all highly educated, 
^lost of the children live in Indiana. JMary Hare Pret- 
low married February 18, 184('>, James Massenbnrg, of 
Southampton County, ^'a., who only lived six months 
and four days after the marriage. She had one child 
by the marriage, James Pretlow ]\Iassenbnrg, now of 
Henderson, N. C, and who married Miss Carrie 




-I. I-. MA->l.M;i in,. 

HKMiEKSdS, N. I . 

Son ol' Mary H. I'lelluw by her tirsi uiairiagc to 
James Xlasi^enburc. of ^otitlianipton Couiiiy, Va. 



Mils. Makv Hauk WixnouNi:. S3 

Tucker, of Frauklintun, X. ( '. .James ami Carrie liavc 
three eliililren : Cai'rie, tlie wife of Mr. Cliarles (". 
.Moore, of Littlt'toii, \. (\; Martlia Tiu-ker. wife of J. 
II. Hridcers, of lleiulersoii, X. ('.. ami Win. Ivlwanl 
Alasseuhiirg-, of O.xford. X. ('., wlio married Miss Aliei^ 
Iliiiiiies, of Oxford, sister to ^Mrs. .\. .1. Fi(dd nf Ixa 
leio-h. X. C. 

James .Mas.-eiiliiirii, tlie liiisliaiid i>\' .Marv iiiiri' I'l-et- 
li w, died Se]itend)er .'!, lS4(i. au'ed -J'-i vears ami two 
iiK.utlis. On tlie :5<)tli day of May, \s:>(), the widow, 
.Mary Mare ^[a.ssenhiirji-, ncc Pretjow, married Samuel 
Dardeii \Viiili<iriie. nf lifrtfuril ('miiity. X. (".. aud is 
the mother of his ciiildreii, wiio.so names and a!:::es liave 
l)een jriven. She <lied Aujiiist l'4, \'M»K She was edu- 
eated in the schools of iier (dinreh. She srradiiated at 
the Quaker Colleii:e for yonnu' ladies in Piiiladeljdiia, 
and while there at school she atlentled religions services 
at the (dd (Quaker church, now standing in that city 
within an enclosure, so sacred to so many familii's in our 
lia])i)y land of free<loni. She was a woman of snlilime 
and gentle character, a devoted inuther. a Christian w<i- 
man, and a loving ami alfectionate wife, .softening, at all 
times, the hard hlows of her Imshand in his struggles and 
hattles of life. After she married out of the chnrch of 
her parents, she joiiie<l the i;a]>tisi church at !5nckliorn, 
and remained one of its truest memhers u\> tu her death. 
Her sister, Ann, after her marriage. joine(l the Chris- 
tian chnrch at Ilidy Xeck, in Xanseniond County. Her 
sister, Elizabeth ( P>ettie as she was called) and her 
hrothers. Robert. .Tose]ili and .Inhn. remained memhers 
of tlie eliurch of tlieir ancesturs uj) ti. their death. 



84 



The Winbokne Family. 



ilary and her hnsliand, S. 1). Wiiilionie, are bnried side 
by side on the southern hill (d' the "Cedar Hill Farm," 
with a marble ardi connecting the heads of the two 
graves, on which is the following inscription : 

"They steered their course to the same quiet shore. 
Not parted long, and now tf) part no more." 

Placed there by their devoted ciiildren. 

My mother left a will, but api)ointed no executor. 
Samuel, and I, (pialifled as ailministrators cum, testa- 
iiirufo anncro. and settled her estate. 





.Ml>» MAKV KLIZ. \M.\miKM-;. 
Second daughter of S. li. and M. 11. Wiiiboriie. 
Died February. 1S73. aged Iti years and ti months. 



Claka Ann a.\u IMauy Ei,iz.\i;i-. i ii Wi.n i;iii{M;. >," 



CLARA ANN WINBORNE. 

'I'lie oldest (liui^litcr and t-liild of Samuel D. and ^lary 
II. \Vinl)orne died in iliirfreeshoro in 1S(;4 while at- 
tending school at the C. B. F. Institute, in her ir)th 
vear, after a brief illness. She is buried on the south- 
ern hill at home. 



MARY ELIZABETH WINBORNE. 

The second dauiihter anil third child id" S. I), and 
M. II. WinlK)rne died at the C\B. F. Institute in Mur- 
freeslxiro in February, 1S73, while there at school, after 
about three days illness. I was then at Columbian Uni- 
versity, Washington, 1). C, wlicu tlie shocking and sad 
news of her deatii readied nie. \Ve wrote to each other 
every week, and tlial week her letter clid not come. The 
cause was soon revealed to nie by letter from home and 
the visit to me by Kev. .Tose])h F. Carter, who was here 
when she died. 



86 The Wixbokxe Family. 



BENJAMIN BRODIE WINBORNE. 

'J'ln- eldest suii of Samuel J >. W'iubonie was boru on 
April 14, 1S54-, at the family liduiestead, Cedar Hill, in 
Manney's Neck, Hertford Cotmty, North Carolina. At 
the time of his birth his nncle. Dr. R. H. Wiuborue, was 
attending lectures at the University of Virginia, and at 
the suggestion of the latter lie was named Benjamin 
Hrodie, in honor of a distinguished English Surgeon, 
for whom Dr. Winborne had great admiration. In 
youth he attended Buekhorn Academy, a flourishing 
classical school, of which Capt. J. H. Picot, a graduate 
of Columbia College, of New York, was principal. In 
ISTl he entered Wake Forest College, where he re- 
uiaiucd for one year, and thereafter continued his 
itudies in Columbian l.Tniversity iu Washington, 1). C, 
receiving from the latter the degree of B. L. in June, 
IS 74. He then studied for one year in the oftice of 
Judge W. N. II. Smith and Hon. George V. Strong, of 
Kaleijih, N. C., and began the practice of law in June, 
1 ST.-), in Winton, N. C, having received his license from 
Ihc Supreme Court of the State the preceding February 
and before he had attained his majority. He soon won 
his way to the front rank of his profession, and for a 
mimber of years has been one of the leading and most 
successful mendK'rs of the bar in the Eastern part of 
the State. In 1S77 he was elected Solicitor of the Infe- 
rior Court of Hertford County — a Court of limited 



s 




Junuaiy , I'Mi. 




-I AM.I-.V « IMliiK.M:, 
Now 111 Iho ("nlveislty uf North ('luollnu 
In .hinior Clas!.. 




U. B. \V1M1(i1:NE. Jr. 

Now at William- iiml Mary Collrgf, 

\\'illiam>i>nrg. \'a. 



Benjamin Brodie Wixborne. 87 

tTiiiiiiiiil jurisdiction — and served in this capacity for a 
ininil)i'r of veaiv. In isill this Court was abolished, 
and a criminal Court of "eneral jurisdiction was estab- 
lished in its stead. At the earnest solicitation of the 
citizens of his countv, he accejjted the judgeship of this 
latter Court, and served for a term of six years, except 
for a short interval when he resigned to serve in the 
Legislature of 1S!I.") — being re-apiiointed Judge after its 
adjournment by Gov. Carr. 

From 1N78 to lS!t4 he served as Chairman of the 
Democratic E.vecutive Committee of Hertford County, 
and it was under his management that the ascendancy 
of the l{e])ublicau jiarty in tlie county was overcome. 
He was one of tiie thirty-lliree Demoerats in the Stjite, 
elected to tiie House of ]ve[)reseutatives in the fall of 
1S!»4, and in the Legislature of 1895 lie took an active 
and leading ])arf. In IMMJ he was one of the North Caro- 
lina delegates to the National Democratic Convention 
in Chicago, lie was again nuule Chairuuin of his party 
in ISDO to r.M)L', when he resigned. In the fall of 1004 
he was again elected a mendier of the Legislature, and 
served in the session of l!»()."i. In this body he was 
Chairman of the Democratic caucus, Chainnan of the 
Judiciary Committee, and of otlier important commit- 
tees. He was the author of much important legislation, 
and took a leading jiart in the debates of the session. 
On Decendier 28, 1870, he married Miss Nellie H. 
Vaughan, a daughter of Col. T^riah Vaughan, of Mur- 
freesboro, N. C, and a lady of exceptional beauty and 
rare loveliness of character. They were blessed with 
the following children : 



88 The Winbokne Family. 

Triah Vaii.nliau Winbomc, born May 13, 1884, who 
(lied in infancy on Aiigust 5, 1884. 

Stanley \Vinbt)rne, born Aiigust 25, 1886, and now a 
young man of bright ]n-oniise and a stndent at the Uni- 
versity of North Candina. He was named for Judge 
vStanlev Matthews, whose intellectual and legal ability 
his father greatly admired. 

Benjamin Brodie Winborne, dr., born Xoveud)er 10, 
1889, and now attending school in Mnrfreesboro, K. C. 

]\Iicajah Winljorne, born February 3, 1890, died 
June 6, 1896. A more comprehensive sketch of the 
sul)ject hereof will be found in the Biographical History 
of Xorth Carolina, iiublislied in IIH).-). 

R. W. W. 



-^^ 




Ml:s. la.I.A M. -WALK rife WIMiilKNt. 

-NUKli.l.K. VA. 



Mrs. Margaeet Ella Savage. 89 



MRS. MARGARET ELLA SAVAGE. 

Tlic tliinl (laughter and Imirtli cliild of Saimu'l 1). 
and .Marv II. Winbornc, iiiarricd, .May 1(J, issii, Leroy 
.1. Savagi', of ^iort'olk, Va. Ho wa.s tlit'ii a nieuiber of 
the firm of Savage, Son iS: ("n., who were doing a hirgc 
and proiitable commission biisines.s. After several 
years tiie firm dissolved and he heeame eonneeted with 
otiier tii-ms in the same line of business uj) to his 
deatii, April 11, llMil. .Vf his <lealii. and for several 
years prior thereto, he and his family lived at their home 
on ("lairborne Avenue, in Norfolk, Va. lie was the 
son of Col. Alexander Savage, a distingnished Confed- 
erate soldier, and bis wife, .Mary Lee, of Xansemond 
County, Va. His widow and her si.\ ehiidreii, Samuel 
\\'., born .Vpril 2<!. iss:5 ; ilary Lee, born .March 14, 
188.5; Karlie, born ilarch 1, ISST; Leroy John, born 
OclnluT 11, 1S81I; Sarah Eliza, born Ai)ril lH, 1S!)2, 
and Margaret Ella, born SejitemlKT 7. I'.KMI, still live at 
the same jilace, which is ownecl by I'^ila. 

My sister, Ella, graduate<l at tiie C. 11. F. Institute 
at Murfreesboro in the class of isTU. She is a most 
refined and charming woman. She has had a hard 
struggle to get along and su]i])ort and educate her chil- 
dren. She is jihilo.sophical and cheerful under all cir- 
cunistances. She received about $3,000 insurance 
money from her husband's insurance for her benefit, and 
13 



90 The Winbokne Family. 

about the same amount from her father's estate, and 
lier home was given to her by her father. With this 
help, and by the best of management she has succeeded 
in getting along well, educated her children as they 
grew up, and is a prince of a little woman. She has 
added to her income by taking a few select boarders. 
She has enlarged her home and now she is comfortably 
fixed. A kind Providence has blessed her, and her 
splendid judgment, strong au<l clear mind, and exalted 
diristian charactei- make her the lovely heroine of the 
family. I tliink she is more like, and the best repre- 
sentative of the family, of our father. May she always 
be happy, is the wish i)f the writer. 




l:. \\ . W iM.wKM.. 1.^,^. 

Alloriicy 111 Law. 

Konnokf. Va. 



KuBEKT WaHKEX W'l.MJOKNK. 91 



ROBERT WARREN WINBORNE. 

Tilt' si'iMiul son of Saimu'l I >. \\'iiilniriii- ami liis wife, 
.Mai-v. I)ol) (as I will speak of liiiii ) lias always been 
a gri'al favorilc in tin- t'aiuilv. From i-arly life lie gavir 
evidenee that he iiosscsscd a lirijrht and elear mind, a 
fondness for books, and a disposition and tact for mak- 
ing fricn<ls. These traits of eharaeter and mind have 
greatly develojied in his niatnrer years. .Many of iiis 
brisiiit and elite savings, wlien voiing. are remembered 
by the writer. When a small Ihiv he was a little slow in 
learning to ride horseback. One day he ventured to ride 
a mule down the broad avenue in frmii of the house at 
home, and the muii' i-ither threw iiiiii or lie fell off. It 
hurl him. biii his e.xperieiice seemed to amuse hiiii. ami 
lie came to the house lio|ipiiig, but laugliing. ami an.xious 
to relate his recent troubles. lie told us how the mule 
drew his back nj) into a knot, ami jumped, as if ;ill his 
legs Were intle.xible.and described the ]ieculiar .sensations 
about hishead. lie thought his head fell off from his iMidy. 
and suddenly his body came to jiieces, and all his jiarts 
were thrown in a pile on the sand. He told it with great 
gusto and vivacity, greatly to the amusement of his 
father and Miss Jennie Kiddick, who was visiting the 
family at the time. lx>b was educated at Huckhorn 
.Veademy and at the University of his State. He grad- 
uated with honors at the University in the class of ISSl, 



92 The Winbokne Family. 

ivcfixiiiy tlie A. II. (IciiTL't'. Kr<iiu September, IS^l, tu 
•laiiiiarv, 1SS2, lie and Locke Craig, another graduate of 
llie 1 'iii\ersit_v, laiiglit seli(i<il ami wrvf tlii' principals in 
file Cliapel Hill Academv. Froni .lauuary, 1.SS2, to 
-hine, 1N,'^2, be tanght school at Rialto, Chatham Conn -, 
X. C He read hnv dnring the time he was teaching 
ami obtained his license to practice in Fehrnary, ISS."!. 
In May, 1SS;5, lie located in IMiirfreesboro, and joined 
I lie wi'iter in the practice of law, nnder the firm name 
of Winborne 6l' IJro. He quickly came to the front as a 
sound lawyer and an attractive speaker. We had a 
large practice. In the fall of 1S85, in the 24th year of 
his age, he was elected, as a Democrat, to the Legislature 
of his State. He was the first Democrat elected to rep- 
resent the comity in the General Assembly since the days 
of reconstruction. By his pleasant and courtly man- 
ners, his ipiickness and readiness in debate, and his 
ability as a lawyer aiLil a student, he made considerable 
reputation and added largely to his roll of friends in the 
State. His knightly and chivalrous bearing, and fond- 
ness for the sublime and beautiful, lias always made him 
a delightful comjianion. On Xovend)er 24, 1SS7, he 
married in Chicago, 111., ]\Iiss Dora Merrifield, at the 
home of her sister. He met Miss ]\rerrifield when she 
was teaeliing at tln^ C. F>. F. Institute for yottng ladies, 
in Murfreeslioro. She was from Valparaiso, Ind., and 
the daughter of .Fudge Thomas T. Merrifield and wife, 
Katheriue. of Valjiaraiso. Boli was attracted to her by 
her great beauty and remarkable iutellectmil attain- 
ments. They hail two children, Tioger M., born August 
1, 1889, and Robert AV., Jr., boi'u 'May 10, 1S92. They 




KO'.Kl; M. W IMioKNK. 

KiiANtiKi:. VA. 




K. W. W IMloKNK. Jk. 



RoBEKT W'arkkn W'i.nuur.nk. 93 

iiri^ iKiw living. liojiCM", like iStaiilcy, is not ;i t'ainily 
iiaiiic, hill a name admired by his |)arcnts. 

In -May, 1S91, Boli, with iiis family, muved from 
M iirf reeshoro to Biiona Vista, \'a., then a most flonrish- 
in_a: iK'^^' town in Kockbridjic Cotinty, <>n the ('. and O. 
Railrnad. In-tween Lvn('hl)nri;' and Lexington, \'a. 

In 1M)7-N he rejiresented liis adopted county in the 
Legislature uf Virginia, and he was a strong candidate 
iiir tlie nomination as one of the two delegates from his 
cdinily to the recent C'onstitntional Convention of Vir- 
ginia, the contest, being Ijetween him and I'X-Cougress- 
nian St. George Tucker, <>f Lexington. Neither of 
these rival candidates receivi'd the nomination, bnt a 
"dark horse" was nominated. lie was the common- 
wealth's attorney, and City Solicitor for the city of 
Hnena Vista from is'.ni mitil OcIoIkt, IIKH. wlien he 
resigned and moved to Roanoke. \'a., where he now re- 
sides and is enjoying a lucrative practice and a happy 
home. Dora, his wife, died .laniiary 21, l!X)(), and on 
February 8, liM)3, he married Rosa T. Vatighan, of 
.Murfreesboro, the younger sister of bis brother. Beuj. 
H.'s wife, a lady e(|ually as attractive and accom])]ishcd 
as liis first wife. lie is a fortunate man. Hob is a line 
lawyer, a sober, ])olished and sclndarly gentleman, a 
iH'autifid sjieaker, an affectionate husband and father, a 
true brother and a devoted son. .May he and his good 
family live long. Rosa, his wif(>, is a qneenly looking 
woman and a noble woman. Judge iferritield, the 
gi-andfather of Roger and I\ob(>rt, was a distinguished 
lawyer and jurist. He was a |)rominent !Mason, and in 
)>olitics a Democrat. Tie was a delegate to the National 



94: The Wisboene Family. 

Democratic Convention that nominated Horatio S. Sey- 
mour, of Kew York, for President of the United States. 
He married Miss Pauline Slvinner, of STew Yorli, Octo- 
ber 9, 1856. His parents were John Merriiield and 
wife, Katherine, of Benton, Yates County, N. Y. His 
M'ife's father died when slie was very young. Slie had 
two brothers, Samuel Skinner, a wealthy gentlenum of 
Valparaiso, and William Skinner, of i!^orth Topeka, 
Kansas. 




^"^ 



ANNIK M. lUKHAfiK ;ief WINHfUiNK. 
tOMt). S. r. 



Mes. ilARTJiA Ann Buubage. 95 



MRS. MARTHA ANNIE BURBAGE. 
.< ."* 

The youiigest daughter of Samuel and Mary was a 
devoted child to her parents up to their death and admin- 
istered greatly to their eomforl and happiness as they 
were closing the book of life. In favor she is more like 
her mother than any of the children. She exhibits, also, 
much of her mother's vivacity and quickness of percep- 
tion, bright and cheerful disposition, and her zeal and 
earnestness in the performance of the duties of life. 
On tiie fith of January, lf^^7, slie married Dr. Thomas 
1. Burbage, a young practicing physician in Manney's 
Neck, and they resided for about two years with her 
parents. They built on a tract of land, about a mile 
north of the old home, given Annie by her father. They 
now have a beautiful country home and an army of six 
children living, and one dead. The roll is: Landon 
Winborne, born l)ecend)er 8, 1887. Mary Olivia, born 
October 28, 18!J0. Samuel Thomas, bom March 27, 
1893. Annie Elizabeth, born June 10, 1S9G. Miriam 
Pretlow, born ilay 9, 1901. Thomas Irwin, born Feb- 
ruary 16, 190.^. Little .Mildred Ella was bora April 5, 
1899, and died June 27, 1900. 

Annie is a Iwautiful mother, true to her church at 
Buckhorn, of which she is a devoted member, an accom- 
plished lady in her family and a great help to her hus- 
band, who is now a busy and successful physician. 
Annie was educated at the C. B. E. Institute in Mur- 
freesboro. 



OG The Winboene Family. 



SAMUEL PRETLOW WINBORNE. 

Tlio youngest eliiM of Samuel L». Wiiibume and liis 
wife, ilary IL, was the companion of his father, and 
tlie dntifnl and loving son <d' his mother, in their de- 
clining years, "lie was the staff of their old age." He 
never completed his education. His school days were 
spent at the old Buckliorn Academy, near his home, 
Horner's Military School, at Oxford, X. ('., and one 
year at the University of Xorth Carolina. He is our 
father's successor, as owner and occu])ant of the old 
homestead in ]\Ianney's Neck. On the 2d day of No- 
ler, 1S!I2, he married the accomplished, the modest 
1 educated daughter of Rev. Reuhen Jones, of 
Ohurcldand, Va., Miss Jessie Jones. They have four 
children — all girls — Mary Pretlow, born August 10, 
1893; Annie Sue, horn Sc])tcmber IT, 1895; Helen, 
horn June 22, 1897; Dova, horn November 29, 1900. 
Jessie's mother was ]\Iiss Susan Perry Deanes, who died 
in April, 18G2, leaving her husband, the Rev. Reuben 
Jones, surviving her. He died in December, 188.">, in 
his 77th year, while he was pastor of the l>aptist church 
at Churchland, Norfolk County, Va., and after serving 
that church as pastor for forty-two years. He was an 
eloquent and good man. Sam and Jessie are staunch 
Baptists and consistent members of Rnckhorn Church. 
He is a Justice of the Peace and a member of the 



\cm 
an< 



\ 




1*. WINUOKNK. Esy.. 




Ml;-. -. P. \\ IMiii|;M.. 



SA:\n:Ki. Prf.ti.ow Winborxe. 97 

('onnty Board of Education of his county, and one of 
the deacons of his chiircli. 

Samuel is a successful fanner, a good citizen, and 
presides with di<;iiity and ease at the old homestead of 
|{i)li(i-t Warren and liis father. Major Winhcirue. May 
he draw inspiration from their noliie lives, and live lonj; 
to enj<iy his interestinji; family. 




13 



98 The Winborne Fa^niily. 



URIAH VAUGHAN. 

Tlie father of ^Xellie, tlie wife of the author of these 
sketches, and Rosa, the wife of Robert AV. Winborne, 
was a remarkable man. He was the younger son of 
John Vanghan and his wife, Sarah Vanghan, nee Rog- 
ers, who lived on a fana about three miles from Mur- 
freesboro. They were peojile in eomfortable circum- 
stances and with strong native intellects. When young 
he was restless and anxious to engage in the mercantile 
liusiness. At the early age of !."> he left school and his 
home, and came to Murfreesboro and secured a posi- 
tion as clerk in one of the leading stores. He soon de- 
veloped great talent and qualifications as a business man 
and nierehaut. l^)ef(ire arrix'iug at full age, he em- 
barked in the mercantile business, in his town, as prin- 
cipal in his business. Success crowned his efforts. 
^^'hen a young nuin he married Miss Sarah A. Jenkins, 
of Hertford County, the licautiful and accomplished 
daughter of Henry HeBerry Jeiddns and his wife, Sarah 
Anumda Jenkins. They reared a family of eight chil- 
dren. Xo hai)]iier home could be found anywhei'e than 
theirs. He and his wife were devout members of the 
^lethodist church. He accumulated a large estate be- 
fore the Civil War, most of which was lost as a result 
of the war. Xot surrendering to the fate of the civil 




I.OI.. IKIAII VAIGIIAN. 
LATE or MlKKItEESBORO, N. t . 

Died Jnimnry 19. 1»M. In lilsTTtli yeiir. 



L'lUAU WvuGiiAN. 99 

titritV', lie i-L'iiowod liis energies, aud success soon again 
crowned his efforts, lunl he died .lannarv 19, 1890, one 
of llie weallhie-t men in liis section of llie cnnntry. His 
wife snrvived liini and <lied .lamiarv ITi, I'.HI). 

Col. I'riali Vangiian was a Christian genllenian, witli 
a wonderful store of wistlnni and knowh'<lge, chivalrous 
in his i)earinii and in his admiration of nohle woman- 

h 1. a model husband, affectionate father, and a true 

frienii. lie estahlished the cotton commission house of 
Vaiighan \- Harne-^. in ^'orfoli<, Va., after the Civil 
War, and with his eapital, and iiy his wonderful km^wl- 
edge of men ami of business, the ffrni made a large 
amoinit of money and establishe<l an enviable reputation. 

His wife's life was one that the best might emulate. 
Their children living at their death are .Mrs. 1). .V. 
Barnes, Thomas .] . N'aughan, I'riah N'aughan, and Mrs. 
13. B. Winborne, of Murfreesbom, X. ( '. ; .Mrs. K. H. 
Stancell, of Margarettsville, N. (". : .Mrs. T. W. Haw- 
kins, of Charlotte, X. ('.. an<l .Mrs. K. \V. Winborne, of 
Koanoke, Va. They lost three children, .luiia, Benja- 
min and William in childiiood. Their oldest daughter, 
.\niiie. iiuirried Geo. L. .\v\>>. of Norfolk, \'a. Shr 
died in .June, 1880, leaving surviving her one son. Fred- 
erick Arps. who now resides in Xorfolk with his father. 

Col. Uriah Vanghan left a will, ami his two sons, 
Thomas and Uriah, and B. B. Winl>orne, (pialitied as 
his executors and settled his estate. The names of the 
Vanghan daughters are: Aiuiie, Bettie. .Vlice, X(dlie, 
Rosa and Sarah A. 

Bettie, a lady of many attractions, married David A. 
Barnes, of Xortham])ton County, who was a])pointed 



100 The Wixbokne Family. 

-Imliic of tlic Siiprrior Court in the First Judicial Dis- 
Irirf of Xortli Carolina iu IstiG by the Provisional Gov- 
ciiujr of tlie State, W. W. Iloklen, and he held the otiice 
i.nril .\u\}\ 1S(>S, when the officers jjrovided for under 
the Canhy Constitutiou of 18GS took ciiarge. Judge 
Ijariies, a few years after his marriage, moved to Mur- 
freesboro to live, where he died June 24, 1892, leaving 
sur\-i-\'ing him his wife and one son, David C., and three 
daughters, IJessie, ISarah and Annie. 

Alice married Dr. Robert H. Stancell. They have 
no children. Mrs. Stancell has a strong and vigorous 
intellect and unusual liusiuess qualifications for a wo- 
num. 

Sarah A. nuirried Tiiomas W. Hawkins, of Warren 
County, X. C. They moved to Charlotte, JST. C, where 
they now live. Mr. Hawkins is a lawyer and a success- 
ful business num. His wife is a most charming and in- 
tellectual woman. They have four children, two sons," 
Vauglian and Thouuis, and two daughters. Rose and 
Sarah. 

We have already stated the fate of Xellie and Rosa. 

Friah's grandfather. Yaughan, was William Vaughan, 
of Hertford County, -wdio was a ])ri\'ate in the Con- 
tinental army of tlie War of ITTfJ, so was William's 
son, John, the father of Uriali. After the Revolution- 
ary War of 1776, the State of Nortli Carolina granted 
to William Vaughan, the father of John, a grant for 
IS.", acres of laud iu Hertford County, adjoining the 
otiier lands of William, the land of Jonathan Rogers, 
^^'illialll Figures, William Porter and Renj. Izells. The 
grant was signed liy Gov. Richard Caswell. 



UlUAII WvriillAN. 101 

•lolui X'aiiglian's sous, William ami I'riali, were liis 
executors. 

Iriali's uiotlier was Miss Sarah Rogei's, daughter of 
Jonatliau Rogers, the frieud and neighbor of William 
N'augliau, Sr. William Porter, mentioned in said 
grant, is an unele of the late K])inetus Porter, of Hert- 
ford (jouuty, who was the son of Benj. Porter. 

John X. Vaughan, Norfolk, Va., and Charles T. 
N'aughan, Murfreesboro, X. C, are the sons of William 
Vaughan, Jr., the elder brother of I'riali, and who died 
June -l-l, 1SS4, on his farm near .Murfreesboro. 

.John X. N'augliau married his cousin, .Miss Annie 
Lawrence, of Murfreesboro, the aunt of my law jjartuer, 
Lloyd J. Lawrence. 

Charles T. Vaughan married ^liss (lertrudc Ilarrell, 
of Murfreesboro, the accomplished daughter of Col. Jar- 
rett X. Ilarrell, the lifelong friend of my father. 

Tlionias .1. \'anghan, son of Triah, married Miss 
.Mary Karlev iirowni, of IJaltiniore, Md., OctoK-r i'l, 
INS."), the grancklaughter of Bisiioji John Earley, of the 
iMethodist Episeoi)al Church, South. Tiicy live in Mur- 
freesboro. Thomas has nnieh id' the business sagacity 
of his father, and in favor resembles him more than any 
of his children. He was a great favorite with his father, 
and is with the whole family, lie is economical an<l 
saving. 

I'riali Vaughan, son of I'riidi, Sr., married Janmirv 
20, ISSl, ^liss Fannie Earley Prown, of Lynchburg. 
\\\.y another granddaughter of Pisho]) Earley, and sister 
to Thomas' wife, ^farv. They also ri'side in ^lurfrees- 
boro. Both of the sons are merchants and are doing a 



102 



The Winbokne Family. 



large and protital)le business. Uriah is one of the most 
pojMilar, as well as a snecessfnl business man, in his 
town. He has two very attractive daughters, !Marv and 
Sarah, and wlio are great favorites in the family. 
Thomas has no children. 





Mi;.-. M.l.I.ll. \. Ul.MiuU.NK. 
Wife of li. li. Winl><)rne. Sr. 



Sai;aii a. Vaicjuan, \ef, Texkixs. 103 



SARAH A. VAUGHAN, NEE JENKINS. 

Tlie wife of L'riali \'aiii>liau was beautiful in man- 
ners, retiring in nature, and a tine tvpe of the old South- 
<iii lady. She was the daughter of Ilenrv DeBerry 
•lenkins and wife, Sarah A. Jenkins, of Hertford 
County. Henry was the son of Winhorne Jenkins, Jr., 
and his wife, Susanna DeBerry, daughter of Peter 
DeBerry, of Xortliainpton Coiinty, X. V. Winhorne 
Jenkins, Jr., was the son of Winhorne Jenkins, Sr., and 
Ids wife, Ennna, of Northampton. Charles Jenkins 
and his wife were the parents of Winhorne Jenkins, Sr. 
Tiie former died in fall of 1772, leaving a will, in whieli 
he devised his jiroperty to his daughter, Elizalxjth, and 
his sous, William, Henry, Charles and Winlwrne. His 
four sons and William Murfree were his executors. 

Winhorne Jenkins, Sr., died in the fall of 1793. He 
seemed to have been a man of large business interest, 
and a large landowner in his ( Xorthampton) Cotmty. 
I find among his ]iapers important business documents 
at late as October 15, 17.il. He appointed his sons, 
Winhorne and Benjamin, his executors. His will is 
'dated July 20. 1790, and the executors' sale was Jan- 
uary 23, 1797. Tn a deed to him, October 15, 1757, 
from Moab Williams, he is spoken of as being in Bertie 
Coimty, N. C. The lands of the Jenkinses, like those 
of the Northampton Winbornes, were situated princi- 



104 The Winborne Family. 

pallv on Quarter and L'raliaw Swamps and Potecasi 
Creek. 

Winborne Jenkins, Sr., had grandsons by the name 
of Winborne Odoni and Winborne Parker. Old man 
Cliarles Jenkins evidently married a Winborne. Very 
probably one of William Winborne's daiighters, who 
lived in the same neighborhood and died in the sunmier 
of 1748. 

Winborne Jenkins, Jr., died in the first part of the 
year 1814. The sale of his property was had by his son 
and executor, Henry DeBerry Jenkins, April 2, 1814. 
His brother, Benjamin, also left a son by the name of 
Winborne Jenkins, who lived and died on his farm, 
about four miles southeast of Murfreesboro. Mr. Wil- 
liam Tom Parker now owns the farm, or a part of it. 

Henry DeBerry Jenkins died at his home in Hertford 
County at the small town of ilapleton, four miles east 
of ]\Iurfrecsboro, in the year 185(5. He was a nmn of 
considerable estate. His wife siirvived him several 
years. 

All tlic Jenkinses were peo])le of much wealth and re- 
finement. 





-Ml:^. l;i >.-A 1. \w.\uoi;.\K. 
Wife of K. \V. Winborne, >-t. 



Bryan Hake. 105 



BRYAN HARE. 

In the early part of iMli eeutiiry tliis man lived in 
Xanseniond Comity, \'a. lie was a (Quaker, and a man 
of .some wealth and prominence in hi.s county and sec- 
tion, lie was a good man and all of his kin were proud 
l(j acknowledge their kinship. lie married Miss Saraii 
Shepherd, sister to Solomon Shepherd, of Xansemond 
County, \'a. lie had three brothers, John, Elijah and 
Harrison, and one sister, Sarah. The latter married 
about 1750 my old ancestor, Henry Wiidjornc, so it ap- 
])ears. Bryan Hare and his wife had one son, Jesse, 
and three daughters, Mary, who married my mother's 
father, Joseph Pretlow ; Ruth, who married James 
C^opeland, of Xanseniond County. Va. They left sev- 
eral children ; and Elizabeth, who married Samuel 
Copelaud, of said county, and they left children. 

1 liav(i an old deed in my possession dated October 15, 
1751, wliereiu .Moab Williams conveyed to Wiuborne 
Jenkins a tract of land on Potecasi Creek, and the deed 
is witnessed by Bryan Hare, Jr., Charles Jenkins, and 
William Jenkins. 

I can get no trace of Bryan Hare after 175S. It 
seems that my father's and my mother's families run 
back to this Hare family. 

1 made inquiry if the late Jackson 15. Hare, of Hert- 
ford County, descended from this same Hare family, 
but I found that be did not. His father was named 
U 



10(1 TiiE WiNBOENE Family. 

J\ioses Hare aud was an Irisliman, wlio came directly to 
tliis coimtry from Ireland during the latter part of the 
LSth century, and married several years thereafter a 
xMiss Constant, of Gates County. They had two chil- 
dren, Jackson B. Hare and John. John went to Texas 
and married in that State, lie died in his adopted 
State, leaving a family of suns and daughters. 

Tliere was a Thomas Hare living in i\Iauuey's Neck 
about ninety years ago. I find his name as a witness to 
old deeds for land in the Buckhorn section. 

Sir John Hare, of England, was a man of great promi- 
nence. 

Edward Hare represented Hertford County with 
Peter Wynn in I he Colonial House of Assembly of 
North Carolina in 17(JS), and at the session of 1771 he 
and Benj. Wynn represented the county. (Vol. 8 Col. 
Rec, pages US, l-tti and 303). 

Tiios. E. Hare married Henry AVinborne's grand- 
(hnighter, Sallie Sharpe. 

Have not bt-cu able to trace lii'vau Hare's brothers, 
• Idhu, Elijah and Harrison. 

.Moses Hare represented Carteret County, North 
Carolina, in the Assemblies during the same time Ed- 
ward Hare represented Hertford. What kin were they 
to Bryan Hare I have been unable to ascertain. Some 
one later may succeed in comjileting these investigations. 

What relation were they to Sir .lohu Hare, of Eng- 
land, who was so prominent in his country in tlie I7th 
century ? 

This question T leave unanswered. T think, however, 
with tlie aid of tlie National Library at Washington, 
1). C., it can be correctly answered. 



Miss Axx Scott. 



107 



MISS ANN SCOTT 

Was the wife of Josepli Pretlow, and tliev were my 
luotlier's i>Taii<l]ian'iits. Slie was tlie ilaiijiliter of Wii- 
liaiii Scoir and his wife. She liad one lirotlier, James, 
1)111 no sister. William Scott was a man (d' i;reat wealth, 
so was iiis son, .lames. He was a direet descendant of 
Sir Peter Scott, (d' Knjiland, wlio was one of the ciiarter 
memhers of Viriiinia in the ehartor of KJO'.t, yranted In- 
Kiiiii .Tames. .Tames Scott, his sister. .Vnn Scott Pret- 
low. and h(>r uranddaiiiiliter, Sarah ('. Pretlow, were 
mnrdered liy .Matthew Drake, as before rehited. 




108 The Winboene Family. 



THE SHEPHERDS. 

My gTandiuotlier, ou my inuther's .side, was Miss 
^lary Hare, of Nansemond County, Va. She married 
my grandfather, Joseph Pretlow, January S, ISIS. Her 
mother was Miss Sarah Shepherd, sister of Solomon 
Shepherd, of Nansemond County, Va. Putting my 
grandmother's age at 23 when she was married, that 
woTild make lier birth about 17,7.">. So her brother, Solo- 
mon Shepherd li^•ed in the last half of the 18th century. 
This could not have been the original Solomon Shep- 
herd, of Xansemond. We find the name of the oldest 
Solomon Shc])berd, of Nansemond, mentioned in 
Ijisliop Jleade's "Old (Jhnrches and Families of Vir- 
ginia," as licing a lay delegate to an Episcopal Conven-' 
tion of 1735, witli Rev. Artliur Emmerson, Willis Eid- 
dick and Eichard Baker. Solomon Sheplierd and Wil- 
lis Riddick, of Xansemond, AVere members of the Con- 
vention of Virginia in 1788, to ratify the United States 
C\>nstitution. Was he the same Solomon Shepherd who 
was a lay delegate to the Con\'ention of 173.5 ? Putting 
his age in 1735 at 25 years, tJion in 17Ss be was SS years 
old. Solomon Sliepberd, my mother's grandfather, was, 
in 1788, about 25 or 30 years of age. My mother's old 
ancestor, Bryan Hare, who married Sarah Shepherd, the 
sister of Solomon Shepherd, of Xansemond, came to 



The Suepuekds. lOli 

-North Caroliua in 1742, autl, so far as 1 can learn, he 
ami liis wife, Saruli, left the Slate iu 1758. They prob- 
ably returned to Xauseniond and, some years thereafter, 
I am Injd his family moved t(j Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Thei-e was a John yhei)herd, whom I am told by the 
old members of the T. 1). \'ann family in ilanney's 
Neck, who came from England in the ISth century and 
settled near Ilicksford, N'irginia, and that he had a 
brother, Solomon Shejiherd, who settled in Nansemond 
County, \'a. That John ha<l a son, Solomon, who came 
to North Carolina aud setlled in ^Manney's Neck, Hert- 
ford County, at the j)Iace later known as the John Wad- 
dill place (and by the way, one of the i)rettiest country 
homes in tlie State), now owaied l)y J. G. ^Majette, the 
Chairman of our Board of County (^onnnissioners. This 
Solomon married a iliss Carr, of that iieighlHirhood, and 
they were the ])arents of Sallie, the wife of Tilghmau D. 
\ ami, of jramiey's Xeck, who was born September 24, 
1.S12, and died l)ccemlx>r 21, 1875. Iler father, Solo- 
mon Shepherd, died ilay 5, 182!). aged 45 years and 
buried at the old Waddill ])lace. Thus it a])i)ears that 
he married young. My niothei- and .Mrs. Sallie N'ann 
claimed to be kin. 

Kx-Chief Justice James E. Shepherd. Raleigh, X. C, 
is a direct descendant of the original Solomon She]ihcrd, 
(if Xansemoiid Cdunty, Va. lie has an uncle, Soloniim 
Shepherd, now living in Philadelphia, Pa. There was, 
also, a Solomon Sheppard from Carteret County, X. C. 
who was a very prominent man before, during and after 
the Reviilutiouarv War of 177*^. 



110 



Thk Winbukne Family. 



Itieluird Slii-pln'iMl, 
iiro iiicnti<iiii'(l aiiKHiii,- I 
of Virginia by King . 
and tiiey lauded in the 
in tlie 17th centnry. 
family for ])rodnc,ing 
were a people of lofty 
and they were so rega 
late Chief Justice^ of 
Solomon Shepherd, of 
of the old type. 



]ireac-lier, and Matthew Shepherd 
t he grantees iu tlie Second Charter 
lames, of England, etc., in 1609, 

Norfolk section of Virginia early 
The Shepherd family was a great 
preacliers in former days. They 
■ ideas of the jirinciples of honor, 
rded. lion. James E. Shepherd, 
Xortli Carolina, and his uncle, 

Philailelphia, are living examples 




Ma. .1. W. IKKKV. 

NOKFIII.K. V.l. 



J. W. Perry. Ill 



J. W. PERRY. 

This man is and has been m}' friend from my early 
nianliood. Sliortly before I located in Winton, X. C, 
in the summer of 1875, he resigned the clerkship of the 
Superior Court of Hertford County, and my old friend, 
\V. J. Gatlini;-, succeeded him in office. Perry, after 
resigning as Clerk of the Court, remained in Winton 
and was engaged in several business enterprises. Ue 
was young, active and successful. He soon became my 
friend and gave mi' much encouragement in those strug- 
gling days of every young lawyer's life. He was my 
first client and paid me my first fee. His friendship 
was a fountain of hope. T can never pay the debt of 
gratitude. He has ever since been my closest friend, 
and the friend of all my family. He scorns meanness. 
He admires honorable conduct. He is a friend to any 
honorable man. He is a big-hearted man, pliilantliroi)ic 
in feeling, frank and jiositive in his dealings with his 
fellowman. Devoted to his native State, and loyal to 
his adopted State. He moved to Xorfolk about 1879 
and engaged in the cotton commission business and met 
with much success. He is President of the large com- 
mission house in Xorfolk, of the J. W. Perry Co. He 
is also Vice-President of the Citizens Pank of that city, 
and is to-day one of the leading, wealthiest and most en- 



112 The \Yixboene Family. 

terprisiiig- citizens of Xorfolk. Xo truer, nobler, sincerer 
man ever lived. His wife's mother was the great grand- 
daughter of Starkey Sharpe and wife, Sarah Sharpe, 
iii'i' Winborne, and his uncle married my wife's aunt. 
Hut these marriage relations had nothing to dn with the 
formation of the strong ties of friendship that have 
existed so long between us, as neither of us knew of it 
until recent years. It would be a blessing if such men 
couhl live always as examples of noble manhood, and 
true citizenship. 




BucKnoRX Academy. 113 



BUCKHORN ACADEMY. 

Tlie acadcuiy of Buckhoru is located in ilannoy's 
-Xcc'k Township, Hertford County, X. C, on a lot ad- 
joining the lot of tlie old Colonial Episcopal Chapel, St. 
I>nkc, wliicli was sitiiate<l lietween tlic |)ublic road and 
I lie present liiiekliorn iJajitist cliiirch. 

Tliere Iiad Ix-en an establislied school at Hnckh(n'n for 
a nmrilicr of years before it was iiicoi'):)orated. The 
first charter granted the school was by an act of the 
Ixigislature of Xortli Carolina, ratified January !J, 1847. 
Tlie trustees mentioned in this charter were John Wad- 
dill. Braekney T. Spiers, Abrain Riddick, Samuel 
.Mo(.re, Walter ilyrick, Elisha 1). IJritt and Tilnian D. 
\'ann. They were incorporated under the name of 
"Trustees of Buck Horn Academy." (See Laws of N. 
CI, lS4(5-7, ch. 120). The name is now written "Buck- 
horn." The school at this old classic and historical spot 
has been ]n-eside(l over by some of North C^U'olina's 
finest and best teachers. Prof. Kim!)erly i)resided for a 
nniuber of years prior to his lieconiing a member of the 
faculty of the State University at Chai)el Hill. Then 
Geo. W. Neal, father of Judge Walter Xeal. George 
A. V>v\U, a graduate of the University in the class of 
1852, also presided for several years. Prof. Julian 
Henri Picot took charge a few years ])rior to the Civil 

AVar. lie formed a company of soldiers, mostly from 

15 



114 The Winboene Family. 

Huc'kliorn boys and led them, as captain, in the war. In 
ISOT he re-opened the Academy, and still presides over 
it, teaching the "young idea how to shoot." It was 
under the tutorship of this gifted, scholarly, and 
knightly gentleman that 1 began to clind) the ladder of 
knowledge. I'lie days when the old blue-back speller, 
Smith's Grammar, ^litchell's Geography, and Ray's 
Arithmetic are fresh in my memory. Then followed 
Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, the English readers, 
Latin Grammar and Header, (';esar, Virgil, Cicero, Hor- 
ace, the Greek Alphabet, Greek Reader, Bible, Homer, and 
the like, with all the air-castles as to the future, which 
are generally found in the life of the school boy who 
knows but little, but thinks be knows it all. When the 
world looks so small as comjiared to bis own majesty. 
Tbe\- were happy days. We loved to talk of the majes- 
tic oaks from little acorns grown, but were never willing 
to admit that we were like the oak. We were majestic 
from the beginning, and no one dared to dispute it. Our 
preceptor was never unkind, never iui]uitient, always for- 
bearing, forgiving, and ready to assist us. He never 
assmned the jiosition of a master, holding in his hand 
the iron rod, Iml he was a com])anion, and won the re- 
spect and love of his scholars by the promptings of a 
nolile heart and a great soul. His boys loved him. My 
earliest recollection of him was in ISGl, when I would 
go with my lialf-ln'other, James P. Massenburg, to 
school, dressed in the uniform of a miniature soldier. 
A red flannel waist with small brass buttons and red 
stripes down the sides of my knee pantaloons, was my 
nuiiurm. T can never forget the spring we were reading 



BUCKIIORN At'ADKMY. llf) 

\ iri;il, wlicii tile iild ('(iwjKT ucsin) wdiiuin'.s boes went 
to war. Tlicy Hew over tlie academy hiiildiiin', iiiakiug- 
a soimd si iiiptliiui>' like tlie tlmiiders of Mt. Sinai, aud 
the old negro woman and lier cliildren were ninning aud 
ringing eow-l)e]ls and beating tin pans, trying to atop the 
old i\ing Bee and to lead the army baek home. liecess 
was taken and ("a](tain Picot invited the boys to watch 
the bees and the chase, with the belLs ami beating of tin 
piiiis. 'I'lic iiiiich distressed old woman finally con- 
(piered the old king with her nuisic and landed them 
hack at her hive. .\a])oleon never was as proud of a 
victory as was the old negro woman. We returned to 
the school room and the master of the languages stood in 
the midst of the room and read aloud the charming dis- 
course of N'irgil on the bees. He never nnide iiimself 
more attractive to his "boys" than on that occasion. May 
the hallowed and classic old ])lace lx> forever presided 
over by a worthy successor. It was froni this old acad- 
emy that my great uncles, my father and his brothers, 
and his children drank fmm the fountain of knowledge. 
We w<M-e taught that — 

".\ little leaiTiing was a dangerous thing- 
Drink deep or taste not of the Pierian spring." 
.\nd that — 

■'The proper study of mankind is man." 

I could tell of some of the fishing and swinuning 
stories that were so beautifully and imjiressively related 
to ns, under th(> shade of the old spreading oaks (not 
beach), if I lived in some disiani land. The old boys 
will remendier 



llC) The Wixbokne Family. 



BUCKHORN BAPTIST CHURCH. 

Duriinj,' the eiirly I'olonial days tliure was erected a 
chm-eli editiee ealleil St. Luke, on the acre lot of kind, 
just in front of the present Buckhorn Baptist Chnrch 
luf, in ilamiey's jS'eck, Hertford County. It was 
called St. LnkeV Chapel and belonged to the Established 
Cluireh of England, where those (.)f that faith worshiped 
as well as others. The old bnihling stood not jnst in 
front of the present bnilding and the road, but it stood 
in the old oak grove, abont half way in front of the open 
sp;ice, between the present church Imilding and the acad- 
emy bnilding. The frame of the ohl church building 
was standing when I was a very small boy. I remember 
it distinctly, and recall the time it fell and was taken 
away. When the American Colonists became restless 
under English o])pression, and the spirit of the Regula- 
tors began to antagonize English institutions, old St. 
!,id-:e, old St. John's Chapel, ami other Colonial 
churches were used by the different religions denomina- 
tions for religious worship. Prior to 175S, Rev. Mat- 
ihias Brickie, a nai)tist preacher in Hertford County, 
preached to his followers in the old St. Luke and St. 
John's chapels. Hector Gurley, an Episcopal preacher, 
lireached at same i)laces to those of his faith. Hector 
:iii<l his followers were generally royalists. About 1758 




Mrs. JI I.IA MOIIKE I'AKl; ISIl. 
(OI.r.MBIA. TLNN, 

(iiilj- living daughter of A. M. 
(iiirley and wife Sarah K. 



' BucKHOES Baptist Cihucu. 



Ill 



Rev. Brickie died. He was succeedcil in his work by 
the Rev. Win. Gurley, of Hertford Couuty, who con- 
tinued for ii number of years to preacii to his Baptist 
congregations atBuckliorii and otherphices in his county. 
The present liuckhorn cimrcii was i)uilt in 1835, when 
old St. Luke's Chapel was abandoned. In 1895, while I 
was a mendier of the General Assenddy of Xorth Caro- 
lina, 1 ilrcw a liili and secured its enactment, whicli 
enabled Buckhoi'n Baptist Church to enter and ac(piire 
title to the church ground of the old St. Luke Chajiel. 
(See Pub. Laws 1895, ch. 14:5). I'n.lcr ibis law IJuck- 
horn Chnrcli did enter the old (Vdonial church yard and 
(detain the title thereto. .May this sacred s]iot be always 
watched over and protected by a Great Silent Provi- 
dence, and remain the castle of tiie Master an<l the 
Falh(>r, where sutl'ering humaidty may for all time 
drink at the fountain of truth and of the Gospel of 
Christ. 




118 The Wixuokne Family. 



BERTIE COUNTY, N. C. 

Prior tri 17,")!) all of that part of Hertford County ly- 
ing on the east side of Poteeasi Creek was a part of Ber- 
tie County, hence we find tlie early records of the Hert- 
ford County Winbornes in Bertie County. So far as 
the records show, Henry Winborne, my old ancestor, was 
the first Winborne to locate in Bertie County in the ter- 
ritory which has been known as Hertford County since 
Xovember, 1759. From tlio records of Bertie we find 
Benjamin Wiidxirne and wife, Sarah, of Bertie County, 
May 12, 1813, conveying a tract of laud in that county 
to Jacob Burtonshell. He married ]\[iss Sarah Jones, 
daughter of William Jones. From the best information 
obtainable, they were the parents of Thomas Winborne, 
who lived in Hertford County, for a long while, with 
W. T. Bynmn, and died about 186!) or 1870. I remem- 
ber seeing him se\'eral times wlien I was a yoimg lad 
riding about with ]uy father. Old man Tommy Win- 
borne, as he was known fen- a long wJiile before his 
death, married a ]\Iiss Copeland, the daughter of Benj. 
Copeland, who lived near Frazier's Cross Roads in Hert- 
ford. They are mentioned in the will of Benj. Cope- 
land, which was ]irobated in August, 1839. Thomas, 
by his marriage, had three children, Mary, Albei't D. 
and A. J. Winborne. 




IIAYHEX J,. lilRLEY. 
MKKUHAN. MISS. 

Only living son of A. >I. CurK-y 
and wife Sarah E. 



Bertie County, N. C. 119 

Mary died without marrying. A. J. Wiuborne mar- 
rit'd a Miss Griftitli, sister of Henry Griffitli. She died 
and he married Miss Eliza Wynns, sister of J. T. and 
Geo. W. Wynns. Andrew Jackson died in 1857, leav- 
ing surviving him his widow, Eliza, and one child, 
Khctta. .\ibert D., his lirother, settled his estate. Albert 
I), moved to Bertitv, near where his grandfather lived, 
and married Lavinia ^larsli. Old man Tommy Win- 
borne outlived all of his family, and in his latter days 
he spent a lonely life, spending most of his time with 
his friends, \V. T. IJyuum and James A. Worrell, of 
Hertford Couutv, and was reeardcd as a man of riffid 
honor and correctness. His grandfather was also named 
liciij. WiulMirne, who on the 1st day of August, 1762, 
obtained from the State a grant for 26-t acres of land in 
.Northampton County, adjoining the lands of Thomas 
Ward, William Saunders, James Ililliard, Pliiiip Win- 
borne and others. This whole family lias died out. 

T find a deed from Josiah Duggan, of Martin County, 
to Henry Winborne of that county, for a tract of land in 
Bertie County, dated August 31, 1S16, lying on Smith- 
wick's Creek and Roanoke River. Harry W. Stubbs, 
Esq., an attorney-at-law in ^fartin County, informs me 
tliat he has searched and that there are no records of any 
Winbornes in that county. There may be some de- 
scendants in the southern part of Bertie County, on the 
Roanoke River, of this old family, but I can not trace 
them. 

It again appears from the records of Bertie County 
that on May 8, 1824, George Clements and wife, Sarah, 
of Pitt Conntv, conveved n tract of land on Roanoke 



120 The Winborne Family. 

Kiver, in Bertie County, to Sarah Winborue, John 0. 
\\'inli()nie, Ileury G. Winborne, ^IcGilveray M. E. 
Winborne and IMonteville F. 11. Winborne. This fam- 
ily seems now to be extinct. This may have been tlie 
widow and children nf Henry Winborne, of Martin 
Coimty. The deed speaks of the grantee, Sarah, as 
widow, and mother of the other grantees. 

The name, Sarali, was a favorite name for the girls of 
olden times. I tind the major ])art of the wives named 
Sarah. It is an easy name to call. Besides it finds iu 
oriain in the Bible. 





Miss HCY ANN CIHLKY. 

Uaughter of A. M. Gurley and wife Samli E. 

Died In 1SS2. aged 17 year.>. 



Hertford Couxty. 121 



HERTFORD COUNTY. 

There were oilier Wiubornes in this countv tlian niv 
ancestors. John Winborne, of this eonntv, was in tlie 
War of 1770 as a Lieutenant in ('apt. Joseph Walker's 
Coni])any from Hertford County. (State Records, Vol. 
10. p. '.144. Vul. K!. p. 1185). He died while a Conti- 
nental soldier. ( \'<il. H>, ]>. llS.")). If seems that he 
left no family. 

Sarah Winborne, daughter i>f Henry WinliDnie and 
his wife. Sarah, married when quite young Starkey 
Sharp, of Hertford County, who was a very wealthy 
and prominent citizen in the eastern end of the county. 
She died in 1777, leaving surviving h(>r her husband and 
three children, Sarah, Klizabeth and Jacob Sharp. Eliz- 
abeth married Xathaniel Ilarrell, and they had several 
children, Starkey S. Harrcll, Sr., who died in 1S:30; 
Xancy Ilarrell, who died in 1S4.">. Starkey S. Ilarrell, 
Sr., was the father of ilarv Harrell. the wife of L. R. 
Jernigan, and S. S. Ilarrell, Jr. 

Sarah Sharp, nee W'inborne's granddaughter, Nancy 
Harrell, daughter of Xathaniel Harrell and wife, Eliza- 
beth, married Wm. L. Smith in ISlfl, and they had two 
children, John L. Smith, born in ISH, and died in 
same year, and William Xathaniel Harrell Smith, born 
1S12 and died while he was Chief Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of X'.,rth Carolinn in 1889. Wm. L. 
10 



122 The Winborne Family. 

Smith died leaviug his wife surviving, and she married 
a Mr. Tancey and had one child, ^Vntonio, who died 
young. Sarah's son, Jacob Sharp, married Miss Nancy 
Hunter, of Gates County, in ITyU. From this mar- 
riage some very prominent men eminated, notably. Col. 
Starkey Sharp, Benebury and Jacob; Gen. Jacob H. 
Sharp, of the late Confederate army; from Mississippi. 

Starkey Sharpe was a descendant of William Sharpe, 
one of the grantees ,in the charter of 1609 of Virginia, 
and was Sheriff of Hertford in 1TS7. St. Eec, Vol. 
21, pp. 1061, 1071. He was a prominent man in his 
day and time. Fn.ini this marriage, also, descended 
Mary ilarrell, the wife of Lemuel R. Harrell, of Hert- 
ford County, and the mother of Hon. T. R. Jernigan 
and .Mrs. .Mary J. Perry, wife of J. W. Perry, Nor- 
folk. Va. 

Sarah's daughter, Sarah, nuirried Thos. E. Hare and 
died in ISK) without leaving children. 

William Wiulidruc, son nf Henry, lived in Hertford 
County, and mi .lanuary 10, 1780, conveyed to Aaron 
Askew a tract of land of 221 acres on Spring Branch, 
in the county of Bertie, and adjoining the lands of Mary 
Parker and William Byrd. The dee<l is witnessed by 
William Xorthcott and Richard Baker. He married a 
few years after this a lady whose Christian name was 
Judith. Her surname I have been unable to learn. 
They were tlie parents of John Winliorne, late of Hert- 
ford Coinity, who Avas born in 1787. 

John Winborne, son of William, married Nancy 
Siniiius, and they lived just on the extreme east end of 
Hertford County, or it may be, the farm lies just over 



Hi:ktf(jkl> County. 123 

tile line ill Jiertie C'uuuty. 1 liavc seen tlie farui ofteu. 
'J'liey had two t-hildren, William J., boru iu IJSIT, and 
Watson S. Winliorne, born in March, 1S2(). John Win- 
borne die(l ill .lime, 1S47, leaving siirviviiig him his 
\vid(j\v, Nancy, and two sons. Their daughter died 
while wvy young. William .1. and Watson IS., his two 
sons, (]ualilied in the fall of IMT, in llertfor<l County, 
as administrators of their father. The sale of his prop- 
erty was December !(!, Is-IT. lie left an estate of 
several thousand dollars, after jiaying the few debts he 
owed. 

.Xaucy Winborne. widow of John Winborne, died in 
iNtif). Her will was probated in Hertford County at 
February Term, IMiti, of the Court of IMeas and Quar- 
ter Sessions. She devised her ]iroperty to her .son, Wat- 
son Simons Winborne, and the sons nf Win. J. Win- 
home, who was then dead. William .1. Wmborue, son 
of .lojiu, married Mary K. Siumn^ in 1^:!T i<v 1 >:!s, and 
they lia<l two sons, Jose|)h W. Winborne, born .\|iril 13, 
1S42, and John S. Winborne, burn .luiie i:i, ls4s. 

Jose])h W. Winborne, son of W. .1.. married Miss Lu- 
cretia Baker, daughter of (Jeorge IJaker and wife, of 
Hertford County, and they hail two .sons, Charles A., 
who died aged three years, and .lose])h II., born in A])ril, 
1S(!4. He was a gallant and bra\'e soldier in the Coii- 
iVderate army and died at Morgantoii, .\'. C., while a 
Mildicr in necember, 1^(J4. 

Watson S. Winborne, son of Joim, died in .lime. 
I !•():;, at his beautiful home in the east end of the county, 
leaving surviving him his wife, Arabella Winliorne, iirr 
]>assiter, whom he married in ls4s, and she and one 



124 Thk WiiNBoKNE Family. 

daughter, Xaucv I'ai-tlieiii:!, survive the head of the 
fauiilv. S. M. Auuuick (jualitied November Hi. 1!)03, 
as his aduiinistrafdr. 

John Simons Winliorue, son nf Wui. .1., lives at the 
east end of Hertford (bounty, and married in 1S71 iliss 
ilary E. Perry. Tiiey have four sons, T. W., born De- 
cember 14, 1873; C. W., born in 187(3; W. B., born in 
1885 ; L. H., born in 188!) ; and three daughters, ^linnie 
M., Lillie B., and ^Mattie L. His (hiughters born in 
1878, 1883 and 1885, respectively. He is a worthy and 
I rue man and citizen. 

Joseph II. Winbonie, son of Joseph, married his 
cousin, ]!^ancy Parthenia Winborne, daughter of Wat- 
son S. They are living now in Lawreneeville, Virginia, 
and have several sons and daughters. 

Of these Winbornes, John S. and Joseph H. Win- 
boi'ue, and their sons, are the only survi\'ing male mem- 
bers. 




XoRTHAMPToX CnrXTY. 125 



NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C. 

On tliL' 4tli of ilarch, 174Sj Jacob Bass conveyed a 
tract of laud iii Xorthainpton County, X. C, to William 
Winbornc, of Xanseuiond County, Virginia, and Win- 
borne settled in the former county. A few months 
thereafter Wiuborne died, and left a will, which was 
probated August, 174S. He devised his property to his 
Sons, William Winborne, Dempsey Wiuborne, Jesse 
Winborne, and his three daughters, Jane, Esther and 
Alice. His son, David Winborne, is not mentioned in 
his will. He directs that his lands in \'irgiuia shall be 
sokl by his executors, and names his wife, Annie, and his 
two brothers, John and Philip Wiuborne, as his execu- 
trix and executors. William signed his will ]Viniam 
Winhome. 

Philip Winborne, Sr., Win. Wiul)nruc's brother, died 
in the spring of 1777, and his will was jirobated August, 
1777. 

He devised his jiroperty tn his wife, Annie Wiuborne. 
To iiis sou, Pryan Winlmrne. he devised his manor 
plantation. To his son, James, and his graiulson, David 
Jonicaiu (evidently Jernigan). (See record of deed 
from David Jernigan to Bi-yan Winborne, in Book Xo. 
7-40IS, dated July, 1786), and his daughters, Annie 
and ^Tary, and David Wiuborne, son of his brother, Wil- 
liam Winbiiriie, he ileviscd the remainder of his estate. 



1-<1 The AVix borne Family. 

iris sons Bryan ami .lames were made his executors. 
William Boone, William Winliorne and John Barnes 
«'ere the witnesses to his will. 

David Winborne, sou of AVilliani Wiuborne, Sr., and 
who is not incntioned in his father's will, hut made a 
beneficiary in his uncle's, Philiji Wiuborue's, will, died 
in 1779, and his will was probated in June, 1779, his 
brother, William Winhorno, dr., and William Boone are 
tlie witnesses. lie dc\'ised his property to his wife, 
Elizabeth Winbdi'nc, and his son, James Winborne, and 
apjiointed them his executors. Cicero Wiuborne was 
born shortly after the death of his father. The will re- 
fers to his mother'.s condition. 

Dempsey AVinbornc, son of William Winborue, Sr., 
died in the first ])art of the year 1816. His will was 
admitted to probate in .March, 1816. lie devised his 
property to his wife, Fereby Winborne, and his sons, 
Lemuel, Henry and William, and his daughter, Rheua. 
William Goosley and Richard Whitaker were his execu- 
tors, and Robert Slici-od, William Webl.) and Polly Bra- 
zill were the witnesses. His son, Gilford is uot men- 
tioned in his will. 

Gilford J. Winb(U-ue, sou of Dempsey Winborne, died 
in the fall of 1827, unmari'ied. His will was pro])ated 
December, 1827, and he devised his interest in his 
father's estate to his brothers, Henry and William Wiu- 
borne, and ap]iointed his mother, Fereliy Winborne, his 
executrix. The witnesses to the will are Joyner Boone, 
Britton Barkley and Isaac Hall. 

William Winborne, son of William Winborne, Sr., 
died in 1807 and his will was admitted to probate in 



KOETHAMPTON CoUXTY. 127 

Jmie, IhUT. lie devised his property to Lis wife, 
ISarali, aud sons, William, Deuipsey, Jesse, Henry, and 
Ills tliree dangliters, Ann Spenee, July Lassiter, and 
Dully Wehl). His son, William, and friend, Kicbai'd 
Wliitaker, were his executors. K. J. Uailey and Isaac 
Griliin were the witnesses to the will. He signed his 
name sometimes Winboriij and sometimes Wiriborne. 
lie must have married ilarietta Grant. The will of 
\Vm. (Jrant, Sr., is dateil June 1.5, 181.S, aud probated 
in 1 )cc(iiil Hf, \^:',i), in which he speaks of his sister, ila- 
rietta Wiulinrnc. and her daughter, Aljsala William 
Winborne. 

Jesse Winiiorne, son of William, Sr., moved to Madi- 
son C'ouinv, Kontneky, and mi the (itii day of October, 
ISOi), sold and conveyed to his brother, Uem{)sey, 50 
acres of land in Northampton County, X. C, on Urahaw 
Swamp, lyinii' on the road to Murfreesboro, and adjoin- 
ing the lands of his brother, William, and others. He 
signed his name sometimes ]yinborn, and Winborne. 

And I find the Xortiiampton Winborncs signing their 
names at different times, Winborn and Winborne. 

William Winborne, Benjamin Winl)i)rno, John Win- 
borne and Philip Winborne, of Xt»rtham])ton County, 
are cotemporaries of Heni-y aud Thomas, aud they may 
have been brothers. I think they spelt their names 
Winboi^e. 

John AVinborne. above, lived in that part of jSTorth- 
ampton County which was cut oft" into Hertford County 
1750. He was Lieutenant in the Continental aiTny 
in Capt. Joseph Walker's Comjiany, Seventh Regiment 
of North Carolina Troops from Hertford County, and 



128 The Winboene Family. 

was killed or died in the war. (State Kec, Vol. IG, p. 

ns5). 

Ill Company F, First Ivegiiueiit of ^'ortli Carolina 
Troops, iu the late Civil War, fhere was a Winborne C. 
Davis from near ilargarettsville, in Northampton 
County, X. C. Capt. Thomas U. Boone, Clerk of the 
Superior Court of Hertford County, ]^. C, tells me 
that he knew Davis well, and ihat he was a splendid 
looking man, and a brave and gallant soldier. He was 
wounded in the battles at Sharpsburg and at Gettys- 
burg, and died in Pennsylvania. I notice that Martha 
Hancock, in her will which was probated in Xorthamp- 
ton County in ISTs, speaks of sister Sarah Win- 
borne and her granddaughter, Mary Eliza Davis. Was 
Winborne C. Davis the brother of Eliza? I tried to 
iiiid out something of these people, but I can find no 
record or any jierson who can give me any information 
about them more than I have obtained in my research. 
;\rrs. Hancock's niece, Eliza, lived in tlie Margarettsville 
neighborhood. 

The ]Srortliam])toii Wiiibornes are extinct. 



t 



Nash County. X. C. 129 



NASH COUNTY, N. C. 

Josiali Wiuhonic died in ITSKS aiul his will was pru- 
bated in XovoiiiImt, 17'.'^. Me devised his pi'operty to 
\t\fi widow, Feiiliv Wiidmriie, and I'uur suns, Abraiiani, 
•lolm, David and dosiah. The tirst three sons were the 
execntors named in the will, and Wilson Taylor, ilat- 
thew Johnson, Willie Hopkins and Priscilla Johnson 
wore the witnesses to the will. His will reads like he 
might liave been a preacher of the Gospel. Ou October 
5, ITi^ii, tlie State granted him o4.") acres of laud in 
Xash County, on tiie waters of Beaver Uam. This land 
he dis])osfs of in his will. 

David Winborne, sou of Josiah, died in 1S4S, and 
his will was probated in February, 1848. lie devised 
his property to Ids widow, Isly Wiuborue, and his chil- 
dren, .lolin Q., dames, Josiah, Ivey J., David, Melauey, 
who nuirried a Btizzcll, Xaucy, who marriinl a Williams, 
.M:iry, Kliza ('., Martha A.. John \'., and Isly Jane, 
lie a])pointed his son, Josiah, his e.xecutxjr. The wit- 
nesses to his will were William Ilaro and Menton M. 
Goodwin. 

David Winborne was a Justice of the Peace in his 
county in 1822 anil 1823. He resigned and the Lcgis- 
iiitnre of that session filled the vacancy by appointment 
by an act of the General Assembly. He was also a 
ilethodist preacher. 
17 



130 The Winboene Familt. 

David Winbonie, .Ir., son of David, Sr., died in 1876, 
and his will was proljated in May, ISTG. He never mar- 
ried, and he devised his estate to his nephew, Festus 
Winhorne, son of his brother, John Q. Winhorne, de- 
ceased. He made A. F. Lewis his executor. The wit- 
nesses to the will were : B. D. Statt and D. M. Statt. 

Mary Winhorne, daughter of David, Sr., died in 
1870, and her will was probated in Wovember, 1879. 
She never inarrie<l. Her estate she devised to her sis- 
ter, Martha A., wife of J. R. Brown, her sister Isly 
Jane, wife of J. A. Brown, Lilly .1. Winborne, her 
niece, and a daughter of li(>r iirofhcr, John Q., and 
John Festus AVinbornc, a son of her brother, John R. 
Winhorne, deceased. J. A. Brown, the hnsband of her 
sister, Isly Jane, was appointed e.xecutor, and D. M. 
Statt and K. W. Statt were witnesses. 

John V. Winborne, son of David, died in 1901, and 
his will was admitted to ])robate August :i!>, 1901. He 
devised his estate to his wife, Katie Winborne. He had 
1111 children. llis wif(> was named as executrix and W. 
(i. Kemp and J. .1. Keui]) were the witnesses. J. D. 
Winborne, Seliiia, .\ . ('., is the ]iersonal repre.sentative 
of John V. Winborn. 

John Q. Winborn was a soldier in the Civil War be- 
tween the States. He was Lieutenant in Company D, 
17th Regiment, X. C Troops, from !Mash County. He 
served throughout the war, but his wherealiouts since the 
war T have been unable to learn. 

Ivey J. Winborn married and died leaving one son, 
William Brock Winborne. 



Nash County, N. C. 131 

William Brock Wiuboriie married .March 4, IMiO, 
widow Catliariiic Rt-hecca \Vats(Hi, of Louisljurg', X. ("., 
file anllior uf llic design of the Confederate Hag, "The 
Stars and Bars," and also of the large Confederate Hag. 
lie dieil March 12, lS<s;], at Pinet.ops, X. ('., leaving his 
widow and two daughters surviving him. One of the 
dangiiters married \\". S. Whittield, and llie otlu'r mar- 
ried 11. S. Wehb, all of l^inetops, Wilson County, X. C. 
The widow i-; 74 yi'aiv uhl and writr-; an inli'rrsting 
lellcr. 

1 understand tliat only one of the Na.sh County fami- 
lies of Winhoi'u's is now living, and he is J. I). Win- 
horne, living ueai' Selma, .X. C. 1 iiave written him 
twice, iiut can not hear fmni him. .\ly letters wei-e re- 
turne<l. 



'^ 



The WiNBiiKNE Family. 



EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N. C. 

The records <<{ this cuuutv sluiw tliat formerly some 
Winbonies lived there. Josiah Winboiirn conveyed 
land in the eonuty October 1-2, IT!*"). Joseph Wiuborn 
a few years later nnd<es a conveyance. James Winbnrn 
is found there in Febrnary, 1817, and on Febriuiry 9, 
1828, Lydia Winborne, of Xorthampton Connty, con- 
veys him land in Edgecombe. Joseph I. Winborn ap- 
jiears on the records as a vendor of land in 1832 and 
1833. 

In 1899 Henry Winburne die<l, leaving a will, in 
which be devises land to his son, William H. Winliorne. 
Justice II. G. Connor writes mo that he knew of Abram 
Winborne, of Tarboro, N. C, bnt he died several j'ears 
ago. The records do not show from what section of the 
country these people came. Bnt evidently they sprang 
fr.im the Xortluimiiton and Xash families. There was 
Hlisha Winborne in Halifax ('(nmty in the early ]iart of 
the 19th century, bnt be went from Xorthampton, and 
returned after a few years to his native county. These 
families are now extinct. 



^^' 



Wake County. 133 



WAKE COUNTY. 

.Te.«;it' Wiiiboruf, of Wake, was biigk-r in Coniijany 1, 
"Wake luiusiers," iu tlie late Civil War. lie married 
but never liad any cliiblreu. Since tlie war he served 
with ability as Cuiinty Coniini.ssioner of that county for 
several terms. He is a man of a good estate, and 
stands as an e.xeniplar t-itizen. \Yithin the last year or 
so, he left Wake County, and is now living at Elon Col- 
lege, X. C. lie has educated several jioor children who 
did not have tiie means to educate themselves. lie was 
a Justice of the Peace, and a leading and model citizen 
in his community. I have been unable to learn his 
ancestry. 




13-1: The ^YII^fBOBNE Family. 



GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C. 

^Ya]tev A. Wiiibdiii-n tigiircil prominently in business 
and official atiairs in Guilford County. We lind him 
party to a law suit reported in 4 D. & B., l'71, Ilubhard 
r. Walter A. W'iiiliorne. He was the victor in the suit. 
We find him again as plaintiff in the suit of Walter A. 
Winburn c. Gorrcll, 3 Ire. Eq., 117. He wins again. 
He was SheVitT of his county from 1847 to 1857, and 
was a large property holder in and around Greensboro. 
]S;o information can l)e obtained as towlierche came from, 
or when he became a citizen of that coimty. He had a 
brother by the name of Cornelius. ISTeither married. 
Cornelius died, and Walter left Greensboro about 1860 
or 1861 and moved to Tennessee. He was a steward 
in the Methodist ehurcli, and a Whig in politics. 

One of the old members of the Greensboro Bar, who 
remembers Winborne well, tells this incident about him : 
A man by the name of Witty was taking a barrel of mo- 
lasses from a wagon, a lioop came off and the contents 
began to run out, when Witty exclaimed with much em- 
phasis. "'The devil." Winborne remarked to him, "Man, 
don't take the name of vour maker in vain." 



RA.NDOLrn County, N. C. 135 



RANDOLPH COUNTY, N. C. 

Richard W. Winburne was a Lieutenant in a conipauy 
from tliat county in llie Civil \\ ar. 

Calvin 11. Wellxjrn, or Winljiirnc, was a Lieutenant 
in Company L from Randolph County, tlic "Cwliarrie 
Rifles." 

I can not get any information of the ahuve two sol- 
dicers since the close of the contlict uf armsi . 



WILSON COUNTY, N. C. 

James Madison Winburn, of Wilson ('onnty, was a 
gallant srddier in the late C^ivil War. He enlisted Jan- 
uary 2G, 18G2, as a private in Com])any F, the Fourth 
Regiment. We have nothing from him since the war. 
So far as I can learn the Winburns of tliis county have 
become extinct. 

Xor is there any trace of any Winbornes in Pitt 
County, so T am informed by the Clerk of the Court of 
that county, who made a search for me. 



I'PiC, The Wixborne Family. 



VIRGINIA. 

Mv investigations have slinwu heyonil iloiiht that tlie 
old Wiiibdi-ues came from Virginia to Xortli Carolina 
(luring tlie first lialf oi tlic IStli century. My old an- 
cestor, Henry Winbiirne, came from Nansemond Connty, 
\'a., in l~-^-2. William Winborne, of Xortliampton 
County, N. C, came from the same county, in 174S, 
and David, Philip and Thomas Winborne came between 
1742 and 1750. Hearing that there was a family of 
Wiidwrnes in Norfolk, Va., I wrote to Elisha J. Win- 
borne, 300 Chestnut street, Berkeley, Va., to learn some- 
thing of his ancestry. In his letter of May 25, 1905, 
to me he writes that bis father was Henry A. Winborne, 
b(irn .lanuarv 1, 1S0'.>, and lived near Carrsville, Va., 
and that his motlier was Eliza A. Winborne, nee Hol- 
land. That his mother died December 7, 1873, and 
his father died March 3, ISSO. His grandfather was 
Elisha Winborne, of Xansemond County, Va. That his 
father had a brother, John Winborne, Avho lived in the 
same county. 

Henry A. Winborne left several children, Solomon 
.T., Alexander J., A. X., Junius W., Gustavnis, and Eli- 
sha J. Winborne. Elisha J., in his letter to me, writes 
tliat he is 66 years r.ld ; that he served through the late 
Civil War under the command of Gen. Wm. Malione, 
and that he and the older members of his family were 
members of the Christian Church. 



ViEGINIA. 137 

lie writes furtlier, that lie had heard his father speak 
often of lirvan Hare, hut Iw eoiihl give nothing definite 
ahciit Hare. .\re tliev kin i Here I meet with another 
Kiiliieon in the destruction < f tlie records of Xansemond 
County, \'a. The Clerk of the (jourt there informs me 
that the records of that conutv only go back to 1866. 
Suffolk, tiie county seat, was the heatl(|nartcrs for the 
rnion soldiers during the late Civil War, and remained 
uniler their control during the military government in 
the Southern States that followed the war. The South 
can never recover completely from the destruction of her 
records during the war. The abolition of slavery was a 
blessing in disguise. With the continuation of the insti- 
tution of shivery, the South could not have retained its 
intellectuality and its wonderful civiiizatinn which was 
the glory and admiration of the New World. The rec- 
ords of the genealogy of her sons and daughters were the 
evidence of her glory and tlie proud boast of iier sii]ic- 
riority. The genial rays of the sunny South, awakened 
a feeling of patriotism and chivalrous bearing, upon the 
altar of the hearts of the jieople, that never permeated 
the ice-bound bosom of the X<u'tlierii clime. 



S^ 



18 



138 The Winbokne Family 



THOMAS WILBORNE. 

This party presents an inturcstiug inquiry. Was his 
name originally A\'inborne 'i Is he the Thomas Wil- 
borne who figured so prominently as a Regulator in 
Orange County, :N. C, in 17()8-9 i Is he the father of 
Ii(il)ert Wilborue, a member of Capt. James Vaughan's 
comi)any nf ( 'nutini'iital trodps from Xorthampton 
County { 

In Deed Book '■] of Xorthami)tiiu records I find a con- 
tract to convey land from Thomas Wilborne of that 
county to Jiilm Robertson, of tlic county of Brunswick, 
in tiie Colony of Virginia. In the body of this contract 
the name is written alternately Wilborne and Winborne, 
btit signed Thmnas Wilbiiruc. This paper is dated Oc- 
tober 10, 17 Go. In the same Book I lind a deed dated 
October 10, 1703, indexed Thomas Winborne to John 
Robertson for the land mentioned in the above contract. 
All through tliis deed the grantors are written Thomas 
Winborne and wife, ^fargaret. but signed Thomas Wil- 
borne. 

In same Imok 1 find anuthcr deed from Thomas Wil- 
borne and wife, ilargaret, dated November 1, 1763, to 
Robert Jones, an attorney-at-hn\' of that county, to whom 
lie conveyed a part of his lands in Occoneechy J^eck. 
He was evidently, from these records, a man of much 
wealth. This deed is written and signed Thomas Wil- 



Thomas Wilbornk 13'.t 

borne. 1 tiuil trmii tlie records of ^^ortllalllI)t<lIl, utter 
tlie l\e\olutioii, Iiohert Will)orne, of tliat county, convey- 
hii!; some of the same lands formerly conveyed to 
Thomas Wilhorne. From the list of the Coutiuoutal 
troops from >»orth Carolina (State Records, Vol. 16), 
I find Koberl Wilhorne a private in Capt. James 
Vaiiijhan's ('oiii]iany, Tlli Regiment. Capt. Vaughan 
was from Xortliampton County. There are a number 
of people by file name of Weiborn and Willburn in 
North ('arolina. Thomas Wilhorne left Xortliampton 
Conntv about IT'M. 




140 Tmc ^YrxBOKNE Family. 



ENGLAND. 

111 Dorset C'uiinty the luiiucs of Winiborne, Sherborne, 
]\Jilborne, Cvauboriie, Winterborne are proniineut and 
leading. John (,)uest, of Scoteli parentage, when he was 
elevated to the peerage, he ado]ited the name of Lord 
Wimbornc. That is some evidence that the above Dor- 
.'!et County iiaiues, ending with 'iinrne'" are Scotch 
names. I mention these facts thinking that some more 
coinjietent and energetic member of the Winborne family 
may in the future trace the origin of our name. I was 
usniied by my uncle, R. II. Winborne, for Sir Benjamin 
Collius Brodie, Bart,, one of the most distinguished phy- 
siologists and surgeons in England in the early part of 
the 19th century. A very full account may be ftmnd 
'■^' him in the Encycloptedia Britarmica. 

My son, Stanley, was named for Justice Stanley ]\Iat- 
thews, of Ohio, who was a member of the Supreme Court 
nf the Ignited States from May 12, 1881, to March 22, 
18SD, the date of his death. 




CoNCLtrsiON. 



141 



CONCLUSION. 

III wriiiiii; tlic forofioing skctclie.s T did iiimdi more 
tliau I !~tartfd out to do. lint after bcainniug the work 
it bccaiiic fa.seinatiiia'. ft ci'eated a burning de.sire to 
look further, and l\ini nw ail the light pos.sible. I con- 
gratulate myself bv indulging the hope that what was 
.so interesting to nic may contribute to the pleasure of 
some one else. .\ man has but a little soul who does not 
enjciy living in the past. The jiast contains the foun- 
tains of wisdom, of knnwledge, and of inspiration. It 
is the mile-post for the future. 

Tt wouhl liave greatly pleased me to have made my 
sketches more extensive and taken in my many friends, 
and my county, but the labors of life made it beyond my 
jiower. I ask the kinil criticisms of my friends and the 
|)eople of my comity, whom I have served st) hing, and 
whose interests are so dear to me. Vale, vale, et lonxjum 
rale. B. B. ^YIXB()I{XE. 



FAMILY RECORD. 




aMMaay. 



iy' 




iuamy- 




/yw/m-< 





C'^'i&l'Cii'' ^M^maMA. 




rmi€i{y ,::yi/''ma4AA . 




ene/M: 




em mm) . 





rymMC ^Umi24Ad. 




^fnf?m' .yyie''^^^€i'A. 




AD19 - 






i5« 



9' 



^ 











4^ "=' 


:."-, 



V ^=^ V '* c\ ,0^ , • • °^ ■^ 



^/ , ^""^ . ^^li^/ ,^' '%^ ":^»^^ , -^"^ 



1 t- O. 












^..,^^.0^^ 







^°-^^. 



^* 



% /' ^ii 






.:^.^ i^* ■* 










. 3 -r O 



0-i^ 



<!>^ 



•^o^ 









o 



4 o. 

> .'-i:,:'- 






, ■■■A <^ ^^/r:- ,0^ 'i^ '^ • . • <\ <> • . ^0^ ^o 



* , , . '^_ lV V « « o 



. -^^ C » " ° ' 






^-^<- 



/% ^w /% w/-^ ^^' /^^^^/-^ • : 










